In the original viz, each of those elements were built in their own sheet and then those sheets were layered on top of each other as shown below:Īs you might expect, the layering of sheets caused some issues. Outside of the radial bar chart, there were many other elements of the main chart. To build this, I used many tutorials, including Kevin Flerlage's tutorial “ Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Radial Bar Chart?” The height of the lines represents the song ranking while the color of the lines represents the album ranking.
#PINK ROCKSTAR CLEAN VERSION FULL#
The core element in both vizzes is a radial bar chart (~200° rather than full 360°) composed by the songs and grouped by albums. In both the original and remastered versions, the main idea was to showcase Pink Floyd Discography, show ranking of the albums and songs (taken from Ultimate Classic Rock) and enable interactivity by playing the songs (URL Action linked to YouTube with some URL adjustments), as well as to show the lyrics and information about the albums. I will also discuss some of the reasons why I thought I should remaster the original.
This blog post will focus on how I built this visualization with a focus on the main chart. So, I decided to remaster it (and it has now become my new favorite viz).
Over the past year, my skills within Tableau have improved significantly and every time I looked at that viz, I saw lots of room for improvement. Well, you may not be aware that about a year ago, I created a viz about Pink Floyd called “ This is Pink Floyd”. So why did I call it “This is Pink Floyd - Remastered”. Pink Floyd is one of my favorite bands of all time - I absolutely love them! And data visualization is currently my favorite hobby - I absolutely love it! So why not mesh together two passions and build a data visualization about Pink Floyd? This blog post will focus on my recent viz, This is Pink Floyd - Remastered.
This is the first blog post that Nir has written internationally with many more to come! Ken and I are excited to have him as a guest blogger on and also excited to help him promote future blogs (currently at You can follow Nir on Twitter on LinkedIn or on Tableau Public. He likes to viz also as a hobby, is a Tableau Featured author and has three VOTDs (2 of them are music related). Nir is a Data visualization and Tableau implementation lead at Zoominfo in Israel. The following is a guest blog post from Nir Smilga.