{"id":353,"date":"2021-06-09T10:42:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T10:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/cher-big-data-and-influence\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T08:11:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T15:11:46","slug":"cher-big-data-and-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/2021\/06\/cher-big-data-and-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Cher, Big Data and Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cher Hot Sheet below was created as fan art by The Hot Sheet<\/a> on Twitter. What a great piece of data visualization!<\/p>\n

Years ago the visual-data software company Tableau gave a demo to Central New Mexico Community College and included an amazing public interactive visualization of some Beatles data<\/a> with headings like What Are Most of Their Songs About and Which Songwriter Has the Largest Vocabulary. You can even roll over their cartoon heads with your mouse to see which Beatle wrote which hits. Big data, maps, trees and graphs! Nerdy fun! It was so awesome in fact that CNM couldn't afford it. But I always hoped someday there'd be a Cher Tableau. <\/p>\n

The Cher Hot Sheet below is the next best thing: albeit static, it aggregates the data (which is some kind of objective reality, you have to admit) and continues to beg the question as to why artists with lesser numbers are in the Hall of Fame but not this stealthy trailblazer. <\/p>\n

(click to expand)<\/p>\n

\"Hotsheet\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In my mind the relevant numbers are this:<\/p>\n