Visualizing HipHop trends from 1989 – 2015 • Hacker News Board

I don't listen to hiphop, but it was neat to see that the hiphop I could find myself listening to all sat within a 1-2 year span, and if I wanted to give it a shot, grabbing albums from that period might yield some palatable albums and artists. So not only is this a great visual demonstration but a useful tool too... thanks

Re: Visualizing HipHop trends from 1989 – 2015

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Post by danielsf » Wed, Jan 27, 2016, 11:59 PM UTC

commenter1239 wrote: post #3

danielsf wrote: post #2

Author here, if anyone has q's

this is a really awesome visualization of hip hop. One question: any way to keep it running when not the front tab?

nope. when things are in an inactive tab...browsers slow down the JS and it crawls to a halt. So I just decided to stop it all together. You could have it in another window in the background though!

Re: Visualizing HipHop trends from 1989 – 2015

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Post by tetraverse » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 12:08 AM UTC

Keeping it real, nigga :)

Re: Visualizing HipHop trends from 1989 – 2015

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Post by max_ » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 9:05 AM UTC

danielsf wrote: post #2

Author here, if anyone has q's

1: How did you manage to get the audio clips from all those songs?

2: How long did it take you to create?