Data Visualization Shows How Songs Top the Charts on Facebook

Like a seismic chart for your eardrums, this Beatquake Map commissioned by Facebook shows how songs ripple through the social network through Facebook's Open Graph.

Like a seismic chart for your eardrums, this Beatquake Map commissioned by Facebook shows how songs ripple through the social network through Facebook’s Open Graph.

Facebook partnered with Stamen, a design and technology studio based in San Francisco, to track the volume of listens for the three songs with the most plays on the social network in the U.S. every day for 90 days. Stamen spread the data in colored layers over a map, using the movement of an old-fashioned graphic equalizer for inspiration.

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