Some screechy monkey or other tagged me on the song chart meme. The idea seems to be to come up with a visual/graphical representation of a song or some lyrical subset of it.
In other words, you can get your music-geek and your math-geek on at the same time.
I came very close to going through our entire record collection last night to pick the optimal song. But then I figured I’d just put up two suboptimal responses rather than laboring to determine what the optimal response would be. (Of course, because I’m a tremendous Luddite, both are hand drawn.)
First a histogram:
After which we break out the Cartesian coordinates:
I’m tagging Julie, both Sean and Jennifer (in the hopes of a nice phase diagram or calculus-related entry), RPM, and GrrlScientist. Plus, you know, anyone else who wants to play along.