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by FrustratedMonky 617 days ago
What is the X-Axis? I'm little lost on how the vertical columns were determined. Was it Beats/Min or something like that.

EDIT: This is a great effort. Super complicated multi-variable. Very hard to find any way to display.
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rob74 617 days ago
It's the infinite spectrum of music :) Seriously, no idea - I don't think it's anything you can measure, but it looks like the genres are roughly sorted by their "electronic/acoustic ratio"? And it also looks like the author is listening to too much EDM, as that is given wayyyyyyy too much space compared to all the other genres (IMHO)...
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jghn 617 days ago
It looks to be time, with higher values being older music. You can use your scroll wheel and mouse around and it becomes more apparent
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FrustratedMonky 617 days ago
It looks like the Height is age. So y-axis, is age of music.

But the left-right categorization, seems arbitrary. I'm curious if it is just arbitrary, since you have to start somewhere. I looked around and didn't find much help on the overall scheme.

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I think the overall columns are a best guess based on this

"The Definition of Genre

The history of Popular Music hardly qualifies as an exact science. It is a retrospective analysis of events that focuses on the underlying forces or common symptoms in the overwhelming production of music records, ignoring nuances and side-effects to grasp a comprehensible structure. This is because (popular) music is far from a static phenomenon: it is a constantly evolving, transforming, giant organism. Almost never has a music genre suddenly emerged as a shocking revolution without any trace or evolution in the past. All of them have naturally evolved, mutated, merged, or become (theoretically) extinct. Only the past can be examined of this natural, organic network."

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