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• Source article: http://adashofdata.com/2023/03/01/a-data-scientist-breaks-down-all-10-taylor-swift-albums/

Interesting. So what she sang about, pink, lilac , mauve , violet, lavender, plum?

Close! Light pink, indigo, ultraviolet, maroon, burgundy and lavender.

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I adore this.

I fully went down the rabbit hole. The YouTube video, the blog, everything.

Awesome job.

Why the numbers? They obscure the album covers and they add literally nothing to the visualization

Would love to know if there are any additions in the Taylor's Versions for Fearless and Red. I know she released more songs and extended some lyrics in each one.

I am a Taylor Swift fan but this is better than most of the content here

Why are y’all booing him. He’s right. I didn’t even see the album covers till he mentioned them.

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"I myself am a fan of her yellowish grey period"

This is actually really cool, in terms of just literary analysis. If you're the first person to put up a visualization on colors in songs/albums like this then definite ultramega kudos -- and I think albums might be even better than songs for comparing across artists and careers.

To critique the visualization itself, I feel like there is a better way to show the evolution of a set over time that doesn't feel like they're all kind of in their own little corner, independent, on a white background (which makes the grey hard to see btw). If the emphasis is indeed on evolution, or perhaps a fan might, knowing Swift's bio, coordinate the use of colors to her perceived emotional state, then placing the colors vertically and connecting them smoothly along a horizontal time axis like a rainbow of thickening and thinning bands might work. Just a thought -- I'm sure you or others will have better ideas.

And good job of course for including the citation information on the image itself. (I'd recommend including a year or date or backlink, though, which helps people find your original post if they want.)

Me too

This data visualization is about the colors mentioned in the lyrics. I think it makes sense that the album covers are grayed out so as not to distract from the “data”

more proof midnights is her best work

Disappointed in the number of times red shows up in red

Girl certainly loves yellow

i think my favourite discovery may have been the FOURTH pen type - the permanent marker revenge song 😆

It's odd you should say this. I'm 'bit of a Swiftie myself, and "Midnights" just doesn't do it for me. No shade, just interesting how people can listen to the same thing and hear something completely different.

Okay but why the numbers

Right? Does it go in order of albums she produced or what?

I mean they’re in chronological order, that’s what the number are, but unnecessary because it obscures the album cover and it can be assumed they’re chronological.

Yeah but “beautiful data” shouldn’t have to be assumed it should be presented

Then my recommendation is put an annotation that albums are listed chronologically in the bottom margin, and keep the albums below each data set, translucent at like 20% opacity.

That would be a good fix to the problem

This is a very odd thing to put together, but it's weirdly fascinating.

i'm not a swifty and probably just listening for different reasons! really thought she captured a lot of more popular music trends on this from radio, film, tv, etc., but all while still being herself. might not actually be her best album but its like she's just having fun with her craft and stepping to the industry