The Unstoppable Pop of Taylor Swift: Data visualizations, variable operationalization, and DATA DATA DATA
The unstoppable pop of Taylor Swift (reuters.com) Here are some ideas for using this to teach statistics: Data visualizations and visualization guides: With cats, y'all. And the Taylor Swift handwriting font. I love the whole vibe of this as well as how they explain their data visualizations. Operationalizing things: The page describes three Spotify metrics for music: Acousticness, danceability, and emotion. The data visualization contains a numeric value for each metric and a description of the metric's meaning. DATA!: Okay. This is an excellent example of things already. And it is delightful. Then I thought, "Oh, wouldn't it be fun if this was in spreadsheet form!" (I think that A LOT, friends). But, as I write a book and my syllabi, I don't have time for that, BUT A REDDITOR DID HAVE TIME FOR THAT . Dr. Doon created a spreadsheet with 18 columns of Spotify data for each son. It doesn't include the Midnights data but is still a fantastic amount of dat...