the sound of my records
THE SOUND OF MY RECORDS is a data visualization project that organizes the albums in my collection, the instruments on the albums, and the genres of the albums. This project improved my skills in both data visualization and data organization.
The primary influences on the shape of the final diagram were the shape of a musical note, the grooves of a record, the curves of space-age record player designs, and an excel-generated pie chart.
inspiration
Process
I created a spreadsheet in Excel using all of the data I gathered. By selecting certain rows, I created charts that would be integrated into my final diagram. I digitized three different concepts and chose the pie chart concept due to its incorporation of album covers and prominent bright colors.
The final diagram includes 47 albums, 12 genres all represented by different colors, 15 instruments all represented by shapes and lines, and a key for both genres and instruments.
