77 | Polygraph and The Journalist Engineer Matt Daniels

Published: July 1, 2016, 3:06 p.m.

b'We have Matt Daniels on the show, the "journalist engineer" behind Polygraph, a blog featuring beautiful journalistic pieces based on data. If you are not familiar with the site, stop now and take a look.\\n\\nMatt starts with a simple question -- for example, what songs from the \'90s are still popular? -- and tries to answer it through data analysis and visualization. The result is always a well-crafted web page and applications, with a mix of data analysis, interactive graphics, and explanations.\\n\\nOn the show we talk specifically about two projects: "The most timeless songs of all-time," in which Matt analyzes song popularity from Spotify data, and "Film Dialogue from 2,000 screenplays, Broken Down by Gender and Age," in which he examines movie dialogues as a way to dig deeper into gender biases in the film industry.\\n\\nLINKS\\n\\nMatt Daniels\\nMatt\\u2019s Medium article \\u201cThe Journalist Engineer\\u201d\\nProject: "The largest vocabulary in Hip Hop"\\nProject: "How music taste evolved"\\nProject: "The most timeless songs of all-time"\\nProject: "Film Dialogue from 2,000 screenplays, Broken Down by Gender and Age"'