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"M" + d.join("L") + "Z" : null ); }); let labels = songs.append('g') .attr('class', 'g-label') .attr('transform', `translate(0, ${-radius - 10})`) .style('font-style', d => audioOn && d.preview_url == '' ? 'italic' : ''); labels.append('text') .attr('x', 0) .attr('y', 0) .attr('width', chartWidth) .text(d => d.track); labels.append('text') .attr('x', 0) .attr('y', 16) .attr('width', chartWidth) .text(d => d.artist); container.append('text') .attr('class', 'g-year-label') .attr('x', 0) .attr('y', 0) .text(d => d.key); if (audioOn) { songs .on('click', function(d) { if (d.preview_url != '' && audio.src != d.preview_url) { audio.src = d.preview_url; audio.play(); d3.selectAll('.g-year').classed('g-playing', false); d3.select(this.parentNode).classed('g-playing', true); d3.selectAll('.g-song').classed('g-playing', false); d3.selectAll('.g-pulse').remove(); d3.select(this) .classed('g-playing', true) .append('path') .attr('class', 'g-pulse') .attr("d", d => radarLine(getChartData(d))); } else { audio.src = ''; d3.selectAll('.g-year').classed('g-playing', false); d3.selectAll('.g-song').classed('g-playing', false); d3.selectAll('.g-pulse').remove(); audio.pause(); } }); } }); return svg.node() }33:T521,md` The acoustic data comes via Spotify’s API from algorithms originally developed by the Echo Nest. Billboard chart data is from Bob Borst’s [website](http://www.bobborst.com/). Further reading and listening: * The Pudding’s [exploration](https://pudding.cool/2018/05/similarity/) of the similarity of Billboard hits * [This paper](http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0003122417728662) by Michael Mauskapf and Noah Askin that asks what makes a song successful * Collin Morris’s [application](https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/articles/projects/what-makes-a-hit/#explorer-intro) of the radar chart form to illustrate Mauskapf and Askin’s paper, and his analysis of repetition in song lyrics, neatly captured in this [Vox video](https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/10/13/16469744/repetition-in-music) * [This Spotify playlist](https://open.spotify.com/user/playlistgiants/playlist/6KOwiWg5zwrt83nEcx7HyI) of every year’s Billboard Top 10 hits * Bob Stanley’s book “Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop” In the course of developing this chart, I [experimented](https://beta.observablehq.com/@sahilchinoy/radar-chart-voronoi) with sampling points along a set of overlapping radar charts to compute a Voronoi tesselation, which enables hover using pure CSS.`34:Ta0b,style = html``35:T5db,// https://bl.ocks.org/bricof/f1f5b4d4bc02cad4dea454a3c5ff8ad7 function getIntersections(pathEl, line) { function btwn(a, b1, b2) { if ((a >= b1) && (a <= b2)) { return true; } if ((a >= b2) && (a <= b1)) { return true; } return false; } function line_line_intersect(line1, line2) { var x1 = line1.x1, x2 = line1.x2, x3 = line2.x1, x4 = line2.x2; var y1 = line1.y1, y2 = line1.y2, y3 = line2.y1, y4 = line2.y2; var pt_denom = (x1 - x2) * (y3 - y4) - (y1 - y2) * (x3 - x4); var pt_x_num = (x1*y2 - y1*x2) * (x3 - x4) - (x1 - x2) * (x3*y4 - y3*x4); var pt_y_num = (x1*y2 - y1*x2) * (y3 - y4) - (y1 - y2) * (x3*y4 - y3*x4); if (pt_denom == 0) { return "parallel"; } else { var pt = {'x': pt_x_num / pt_denom, 'y': pt_y_num / pt_denom}; if (btwn(pt.x, x1, x2) && btwn(pt.y, y1, y2) && btwn(pt.x, x3, x4) && btwn(pt.y, y3, y4)) { return pt; } else { return "not in range"; } } } var n_segments = 50; var pathLength = pathEl.getTotalLength(); for (var i=0; iIf audio is on, when you click a song, a 30-second sample (courtesy of Spotify) will begin playing. 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