← WOWPlaylists and Tableau 29 January 2014

Recently at work I started organising the return of a tradition called Welcome Playlists, where new staff get to create a playlist for the office to listen to on a Friday afternoon shortly after they start; for those weeks where there isn’t anybody new starting, it’s names out of a hat time to see who gets to have a go.

And then, inspired by Andy’s blog posts about visualising Last.fm data, I decided to fetch the playlist metadata and play around with it in Tableau.

Below is the result of my first (really rather quick) effort at doing so: