Song chart meme: for two-two-two geeks in one.

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:

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After which we break out the Cartesian coordinates:

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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.

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I came very close to going through our entire record collection last night to pick the optimal song.

You should have: you never know what might have fallen out of Pink Floyd.

This meme arrived at my doorstep recently in the context of a minor Rickroll epidemic. You know consultants--we never met a graphical representation of useless metrics that we didn't like.

Rickroll Pie Chart