Pitchfork's Best of the Year Over the Decade

Adam Pearce

544 albums, 11 lists and 1 table: Pitchfork's favorites over the decade

https://roadtolarissa.com/pitchfork/

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PROCESS

I played around with trying encode position, with slope charts and scatter plots, but settled on a table for easy scanning and density of text. Cutting off artist names isn't ideal, but couldn't figure out how else to squeeze everything in.

https://blocks.roadtolarissa.com/1wheel/raw/5ec32afde3419ef4f741bccd7405f53b/index.html

With more time, I would have collected the original review scores and shown artist albums that didn't make any lists on mouseover to give a better idea of their career arc.

The log scaling for the decade bars was also a little fiddly. I wanted to make the legend control the scaling and rank the years by summing the bars; maybe with a linear or a flat scale 2010 would score higher?