Visualisation in 2D Beta

3D

The scored set as a chart: pick two scales, one across and one up, and every record sits on it as its own sleeve. Clusters show themselves, and opening a sleeve lists the records most like it on all the scales. A range on any other scale keeps only the records inside it. For a third scale as a side, there is the box. 47 non-prog records on the map stay off the chart until you ask for them, below.

Choose the two sides, and what to keep
Keep only the records whose

196 of 223 releases placed — 27 left out for having no value on one of the two sides, which on these scales is not the same as a zero.

The scored set on the chart

Hover a sleeve for its readings, click it to open the record; Escape closes it.

Records level on both scales are fanned out a little around the spot they share. Dashed lines lead from an open record to the ones most like it across all the scales, not only these two.

The year is the one side that is not a scale: it runs from the oldest record on the map to the newest, so the chart can show how a quality moved through the decades.

These numbers are the community's, and the community is still small

Every value here is what the membership has the record at: the same trust-weighted blend of every member's placement that the record's own page shows, on the twenty-seven scales and the three criteria alike. Nothing here reads one member's rows. Which records are on the map is a judgement in two parts: SiteCurator and Mike mark a record at full relevance, and the membership must hold it at 60 or more on one of the three criteria, so getting a record onto this page is those two accounts' call, and keeping it here is everyone's. The non-prog records are the exception: they mark the bottom of a scale, so the second test would rule them out.

Today that blend is thin. Of the 270 records here, 34 have more than one member behind them, and the rest stand on a single assessment. Most came from one automated pass by a machine account, which makes the rows comparable but is also the whole of their authority. Nobody has checked that pass.

The three criteria marked beside each release are shaky too: around half of their values were never typed by anybody, since assigning a genre that implies a criterion writes it onto your rows. So a tick is not reliably anyone's opinion.

Only members can fix both. Open a record you know well (the scored set is a good start) and score it under Coordinates in its editor. You need not answer all twenty-seven scales; the ones you are sure of beat a complete guess. Answer the three criteria directly rather than leaving a genre to do it. Your values move these pages too, so a second and third assessor are all it takes for a scale to become the site's reading.