{"id":75,"date":"2021-11-08T22:57:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T05:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/texttechnologiesneillmccallum\/?page_id=75"},"modified":"2021-11-12T16:32:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T23:32:40","slug":"golden-record-curation-data","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/texttechnologiesneillmccallum\/golden-record-curation-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Record Curation Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Challenge<\/h2>\n

Analyze a visualization that was created from data based on my classmate’s choices for the 10 music tracks that should be kept on the golden record that was sent out to space on the Voyager spacecraft.<\/p>\n

My Analysis<\/h2>\n

The visualization created by myself and my classmates in regards to the Golden Record Curation<\/em> choices at first glance looked like a convoluted mess that did not seem to have any particular method to the madness. After interacting and zooming in on the data I believe I could understand a bit further. From my observations, it appears that the least popular music tracks appear on the edges of the visualization and are represented with smaller circles, such as Pygmy Girls’ Initiation Song<\/em> or Men’s House Song <\/em>seen in the image below.\u00a0<\/em>The more popular choices are closer to the center of the visualization and have larger circles and the dark circles represent my classmates.<\/p>\n

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Visualization of all classmates and their choices<\/p><\/div>\n

After looking at individual groups, and dragging around participants, the connections being made between the choices became more clear as I pulled the nodes apart and spread them out.\u00a0\u00a0Songs chosen within a group appear in the middle as they are being pulled in different directions by the classmates, while the least popular songs are again at the edge like Johnny B. Good <\/em>in the image below for Group 0.<\/em><\/p>\n