@Metalplots

Plots, maps, and stats on metal

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Joined April 2021
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I guess I'll give this a try too, why not.
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I am NOT affiliated with any metal awards websites! Just saw that some has me down as such. It's a lie!
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Maybe a lie is presumptive and maybe they don't mean to point at my work specifically. Still, not on YouTube or Facebook.
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This may be my last post here! Opeth career ratings visualizations from RYM data! A bit of a career review as well. Do the ratings match your preferences? #Metal #dataviz metalstats.wordpress.com/202…

RYM Career Stats: Opeth

Have a look at these visualizations of ratings from Rate Your Music for Opeth! First, a look at album ratings over time: Plot Link A brief commentary: Well, perhaps you know the story here already,…

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A histogram and short discussion on heavy metal band name length. What's the average length of a band name? Who's got the longest? There will be a quiz later where you have to recite the answers out loud! #metal #python #dataviz metalstats.wordpress.com/202…

Heavy Metal Band Name Length

A lot can go into choosing the name of your band.  You have to fit the feel of your music and basically put forth a concise thesis to your sound in something that fits on a banner or album cov…

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Sepultura career ratings visualizations from RYM data! Do the ratings match your preferences? #Metal #dataviz metalstats.wordpress.com/202…

RYM Career Stats: Sepultura

Have a look at these visualizations of ratings from Rate Your Music for Sepultura ! First, a look at album ratings over time: Plot Link A brief commentary: Look at that paraboloid!  A quick as…

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Heavy Metal Calendar Stats. What time of year, month, week, etc. do albums get released? metalstats.wordpress.com/202…

Heavy Metal Calendar: Release Date Stats

Timing when you release an album can be an important consideration for a band.  Release at an off time of year, not enough demand.  Release it at a time when everyone else is as well, may…

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An awesome thesis on Finnish metal music and how it adapts Karelian-Finnish folklore by Charlotte Doesburg! discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprin…
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Judas Priest career ratings visualizations from RYM data Do the ratings match your personal preferences? metalstats.wordpress.com/202…

RYM Career Stats: Judas Priest

Have a look at these visualizations of ratings from rate your music for Judas Priest! First, a look at album ratings over time: Plot Link A brief commentary: High density of well loved albums in th…

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An Analysis of the Length of Heavy Metal Songs metalstats.wordpress.com/202…

An Analysis of the Length of Heavy Metal Songs

Having been around now for over 50 years, the metal genre has amassed a large library of songs.  Over 3 million songs are included in my current data set taken from Metal Archives in 2022 and …

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Heavy Metal Bands per Population: Select Countries by 1st level Admin Regions metalstats.wordpress.com/202…

Heavy Metal Bands per Population: Select Countries by 1st level Admin Regions

I’m sure you’ve seen the old bands per capita world map a hundred or more times by now, but what if we dig down a level for each country? Here is a whole slew of bands per populace maps…

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The Roles Heavy Metal Artists Play and How They Overlap Including role prevalence and overlap. metalstats.wordpress.com/202…

The Roles Heavy Metal Artists Play and How They Overlap

Every band has members and each member plays a specific or sometimes multiple roles in creating their music.  Some play guitar, or sing, or play drums, etc.  Duh, you know this, but I nee…

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How did I miss @BadEyeSyndicate for so long? Decent metal data plots over there!
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Now in the process of reworking and consolidating my info onto my WordPress site. I've never really liked the short form and ephemeral nature of social media for some of this info. Here's to hoping it'll eventually be easier to navigate.
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Just about done here.
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Every single statistic ever
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An election map so wild you'll say "That's not an election map, that's Google trends data for death metal vs. black metal".
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SDBM with such a strong trend over other subgenres of black metal may say a lot about how it's going.
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Pandemic really brought around a resurgence for nu metal, metal core, death core, and even thrash. I wonder what caused people to, after nearly 2 decades of consistency, start dropping industrial.
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Artist in this context includes any act appearing on a recording including bands and individuals. Sorry there is no legend. I haven't figured out a good way to get flourish to do it logarithmically.
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