I’m playing in Washington D.C. tomorrow, Saturday April 17. First time in Distrito Federal! It’s a Dutty Artz thing: Matt Shadetek and Jahdan Blakkamoore are coming down with me & we intend to shake things up. Info.
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I’ve been checking a lot of data visualization projects lately. (I tend towards data narrativization, truth be told). This one is particularly fresh. And sobering:
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April 18, 2010
I love data.
However, that also makes me a harsh critic of misleading data.
My problems with this info graphic is that it clearly seems to be saying:
“relative to self-pressing your own cd’s, streaming and digital downloads require vastly more sales to be viable”
What it doesn’t represent, is that those pink circles are too vague. 1 CD does not equal 1 streamed track in terms of media duplication, distribution, physical space requirements…. etc. Those pink circles are more misleading than they are helpful.
The label revenue numbers are more interesting, I think. The motive of comparing traditional ways of selling music to new ways is admirable, but this graphic makes me grumpy.
April 18, 2010
[...] Raw data spotted over at /rupture’s Mudd Up! [...]
April 19, 2010
This graphic seems to suggest that the artist receives the highest ratio of income relative to “sales” when consumers purchase “product” from cdbaby. I’m a digital immigrant (boomer) most comfortable with the object, rather than just data, so am will to pay a bit more for the music. So, cdbaby is the best way for me to support the income of the artist, even moreso than buying through a “record store”. Am I reading this correctly or am I out to lunch? Thanks
April 20, 2010
[...] unprecedented opportunities for music distro, sobering visualizations, and tweets for mpfrees asks for tricky math. I’m not sure we yet have the tools or the data. [...]
April 26, 2010
RE: DC, I hope the District appreciated you guys coming here. Knowing full well you’ve never played here, and having never been able to hit your Sonar shows, I was incredibly bummed to find the flier for the show the morning after it occurred. I read lots of blogs, entertainment stuff, etc. but somehow I missed this.
Hopefully the show went well enough that you’ll be back.