Goal: Create a data visualization showing Bob Dylan's most popular albums in a poster format. In this context, popularity refers to appearing on Billboard 200.

Tool(s) used for data visualization: Adobe Illustrator

Tool(s) used for data prep: Excel and PowerQuery

Data gathered from the following sources: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/snapcrack/the-billboard-200-acoustic-data; https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/snapcrack/the-billboard-200-acoustic-data; https://www.billboard.com/artist/bob-dylan/chart-history/tlp/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan_discography

Too many lines for the data to be readable in this format. A mirror bar might be better for readability. Would also help make the trends more visible.

Also it looks like these are ranked by weeks on chart. It would be better to order by release date.

Thanks for the feedback! I will give mirror bars a try soon. For this chart, I wanted to imitate a vinyl record, sort of 😃

I dont have microscopes for eyes (yet) so whats going on inside the circle

This looks really beautiful, yes. But I barely understand any of it

It looks interesting, but the resolution is way too low

It makes more sense when you realize that red occupies 1/4 and black 3/4. ...for some reason.

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Neat and novel way to visualize artist performance! I am curious to see other artists in comparison to see the kind of different stories it can tell.

That's on my mind, to do something similar with other artists. I will have to find time though, this one was very time-consuming.

Unfortunately, I have never attended Bob Dylan's concert.

Thanks for the feedback. I will figure out a way to create and upload high-resolution files in future.

I have attempted to explain the visualization at the bottom right section of the graphic. The goal was to experiment with non-traditional designs, with some sort of poster as the end result, by making some trade-offs on the functionality side.

That was purely for aesthetics, to break the symmetry.

>I have attempted to explain the visualization at the bottom right section of the graphic. You will have to look at the zoomed image on your browser though.

Yup. It definitely looks really cool, like a vinyl. I am guessing you were aiming for that

IMO you should have a 'click to transition' into a bar chart. So the spinning record moves into a more classically read format. Sell them the sizzle to feed them the steak.

Bit off topic and I'm not sure if it's (still) true, but a long time ago I heard a rumor that KISS sold more records than Dylan

(shiver)

needs another layer that shows years, Bob has 60 years on the charts.

That's correct, I was aiming for it to look like vinyl.

Thanks for the feedback! I have another chart in progress, which focuses on years.

Thanks for the feedback! I used Illustrator for this one, which only produces static images. It will be worth exploring other tools or libraries to achieve such an interaction.

It's obviously not perfect, but it's a really neat idea and it looks polished. Just some growing pains with the format. +1

Agreed! Learning every day 🙂

I dig the vinyl-shaped plot— creative way to show multiple data types in a coherent way. But wouldn’t these bars be better described as “polar”, rather than “radial”?

I thought polar bars are those which extend inside out. It's hard these days, with so many chart types names are getting confusing.

I don’t really know. It just feels like the data is “pointing” in the polar direction. Cool plot!