What do the varying sizes of the circles represent?

How are the pieces in the middle arranged?

Interesting that the more successful his visualization is the less interesting it is visually. If he’s right about Happy Hardcore there aren’t many nodes.

As a reminder – Jordan placed his dot so far away from beauty it was outside the triangle.

It looks like there are fine lines connecting the circles… I wish I could see them better…
 – maybe it’s a projection issue.. I would imagine the lines are solid on his screen

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 Its a little hard to read the names over the dark dots…

I think theres a lot of potential for interactivity and exposure here. Have you seen http://www.thesixtyone.com or justwatchthesky on Tumblr? I think if you had the same kind of exposure aspects it’d become really useful.

Interesting premise for an investigation. I like that it’s driven by your personal interests, and designed to test a real hyporthesis. Also, I’m reminded of a recent visualization about the collaborativity of the beatles: http://www.mikemake.com/#72772/Charting-the-Beatles –GL

Very interesting data (I’ve actually heard of Scott Brown!), but your chart is a little difficult to read. Ah, I just noticed, when you moused over some of the nodes, a description popped up, that’s a bit better–but I still think it could’ve been represented more clearly, maybe something like the way the site posted above did. 🙂 -Amanda

The interactivity (hover-overs) is helpful here, not gratuitous. The fact that it helps you discuss the genre itself means the visualization is working. It’d be cool if you could work the music samples in themselves somehow (does Lala have an API?) -SB

I agree that the interactivity helps, still, a PDF version would be nice. Resolution is an issue. Why only an interactive version? the overflow at the top is especially annoying. Also, how did you collect your data?? You never explained this. –GL

Jon asked: What is your actual set of conclusions, that you were able to make from the visualization?