[input_sh]

I love the idea behind it and the visualisation indeed looks awesome, but the RA data behind it is messy to say the least.

For example, 3/7 "nightclubs" it lists in Croatia are not nightclubs. I would also group Kalypso and Zrće Beach together as Kalypso is one out of 4 nightclubs located on Zrće Beach, but the beach itself is not a venue. Similarly, Barbarella's is kind of an afterparty destination for festivals organised at the Garden Resort. They only match 6%, but I wouldn't call them completely separate. This is the kind of "lore" that's impossible to catch from raw data.

I like the Essential Mix visualisation even more! It's such a shame most of the other ones appear dead due to API changes.

[kalli]

Author here, this is good to know.! I tried to spotcheck the regions and countries, but wasn't familiar with all of them so didn't want to make assumptions (and didn't make time to research them thoroughly). Not sure if/how I could try to correct that.

> This is the kind of "lore" that's impossible to catch from raw data.

Agreed this project definitely banged up against those sorts of walls a few times. Still think it's worth trying, hopefully the information offered one can find outweighs any distortions it introduces. Maybe something that should have been explicitly acknowledged in the piece.

> I like the Essential Mix visualisation even more! It's such a shame most of the other ones appear dead due to API changes.

Thanks, happy to hear that. I keep meaning to go back to the essential mix one, get new data and apply some of the stuff I've learned since!

[radley]

Sounds like RA could have a lot of DJs promoting their small bar gigs and day parties.

[presentation]

When I was DJing locally in SF, that was exactly what we were doing.