Simple but so rich: gender plot of artists listened to on Last FM #dataviz
[Download the pdf so you can see what's going on properly]
Seriously, this is is so good. Axes are pretty self-explanatory - the vertical axis show the gender ratio for listeners to an artist (ie Gaga v. popular with the ladies, Kyle Hall not so). The size of the artist's name corresponds to my number of listens in the last six months. On a side note, this covers the last six months. I don't actually listen to a lot of music through Last Fm itself (occasionally I use the artist radio stations). Mostly this is scrobbling my own stuff through iTunes and, more recently, through Spotify which I'm using more despite it's quite limited selection. One blind spot on scrobbling is listening to mixes, even if it picks up the DJ name OK - listening to an hour of Bok Bok registers the same as a 3-minute DJ Nate track. Perhaps an option to use length of time rather than number of tracks as a variable could be included?All in all, a *great* data visualisation - if you're a Last FM user you can get your gender plot here.[hat tip to @lexpretend]
