Hallo zusammen!
Ich war schon immer fasziniert davon, wie Musik physische Grenzen überschreitet (oder verstärkt). Inspiriert vom Original "Kulturelle Grenzen" Projekt von The Pudding wollte ich eine Version erstellen, die nicht nur ein statischer Schnappschuss ist, sondern eine lebendige, hierarchische Geographie der Musik.
Link zum Projekt: https://catbru.github.io/cultural-borders-yt-charts-web/
Von cat_bru
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**How I built it (The „Beautiful“ Data part):**
* **Data Sources:** Music data is fetched via YouTube Charts APIs. Map geometries are sourced from OpenStreetMap (Nominatim).
* **Data Pipeline:** I built a pipeline using **Python and GeoPandas** to discover locations via autocomplete APIs and fetch chart data in parallel (using 10 parallel workers to handle the ~90k rows of data).
* **Frontend:** The map is rendered using **MapLibre GL JS**, handling the `combined_map.geojson` and `charts_tracks.csv` files on the fly. I used topological simplification to ensure the map remains performant on web browsers.
**Key Features:**
* **Granularity:** Unlike most music maps that only show countries, this includes ~4,700 locations including cities and sub-regions.
* **Beyond #1:** You can explore the full Top 20 context for each specific territory.
* **Non-overlapping Geometry:** I used a custom global geometry that preserves local specificity while allowing instant interaction.
But the colours, what do they mean?
Interesting that the Brazilian Phonk artist (ZXKAI) is #1 all over Russia but not even charting in Brazil itself.
One of the few actual good posts from this sub. Cool project.