Show HN: splashbe.at, a force graph of Wikipedia's list of music styles

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Post by haon99 » Tue, Jun 19, 2012, 1:48 PM UTC

Show HN: splashbe.at, a force graph of Wikipedia's list of music styles
splashbe.at

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Post by zalew » Tue, Jun 19, 2012, 2:05 PM UTC

nice. how to force it to show electronica? I keep refreshing and all it comes is indie-something and rock. I got techno once, but when clicked it it showed some christian rock, gagaku, etc. UI is nice, but something is wrong with jumping around content

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Post by tshadwell » Tue, Jun 19, 2012, 2:07 PM UTC

I keep getting 'Wood' and 'Poland', as well as occasional articles on wrestlers. When it works, it works well, though.

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Post by donum » Tue, Jun 19, 2012, 2:12 PM UTC

How is this useful?

It shows how genres are related but if I click on two genres, it's a large grey ball of relations which shows exactly nothing except there are huge relationships between these genres.

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Post by icehero » Tue, Jun 19, 2012, 2:25 PM UTC

1. no cache?! what year is this?! 2010?! 2. keeps automatically refreshing/restarting the graph every time I switch the tabs in Chrome 19. 3. at my first refresh I think it loaded all the music styles at once.

Nice. Get working on your next one.

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Post by mistercow » Tue, Jun 19, 2012, 2:45 PM UTC

Not the most graphically efficient demo I've ever seen, but neat.

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Post by aeurielesn » Tue, Jun 19, 2012, 3:02 PM UTC

Can anyone tell if the duplicated nodes has any meaning at all? Or, is only a bug?

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Post by davedx » Tue, Jun 19, 2012, 3:10 PM UTC

Seems totally random or broken. Whatever is on screen is completely unrelated (IMHO) and clicking on one thing takes you to something random. What's it supposed to do?

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Post by davidbrent » Tue, Jun 19, 2012, 3:35 PM UTC

Cool idea. Would like to read more about some of these genres, but can't get to the link quick enough before it fades away!

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Tue, Jun 19, 2012, 4:07 PM UTC

davedx wrote: post #8

Seems totally random or broken. Whatever is on screen is completely unrelated (IMHO) and clicking on one thing takes you to something random. What's it supposed to do?

Click "add a new Genre" repeatedly.