LuckyNumber7
Blue Crack Addict
Hi all,
After so many years on Interference I've gotten to know how much we all love to share our Top 10's. Your top U2 songs, your favorite albums, your favorite U2 eras, etc. etc.
So, I figured instead of asking the same question over again, why don't we as a group of fans see what we think of collectively? I'm proposing something a bit wild - a large data project where you get to go through and rank approximately all of U2's songs on a scale from 1 to 10; 10 being flawless, 5 being ok, and 1 being a really bad song, with varying amounts of good and bat in between.
As I'm currently caught between two lives, I have a lot of extra time on my hands, and have already set up the playing field via means of Excel and Python to not only create a sample of all of the songs in order from best to worst, but also search for interesting trends across various demographics (age, gender, nationality, poster count, etc.), and search for interesting trends across albums, eras, release types, etc. etc.
This project is an opportunity to create a unique result - does Interference (and assumedly thereby big U2 fans) generally agree on a ranking of songs? Are there any interesting trends across demographics and the way we value U2's music? Do we as a group have a consensus on which albums are the best and which are the worst?
The survey itself will take some time for you to complete. You're more than welcome to rank songs without listening to them, however if you do not know a song you are obliged to listen to it to get an opinion, as every question on a survey must be answered for your data set to be valid (and thereby validate data sets on songs/albums/etc.). It will take time, but if enough people are willing to join in, it can produce some cool results!
If you are interested please respond to this thread. Surveys will be distributed via google drive or via email, but your responses are kept anonymous in the presentation of the results. For everyone interested, would you please indicate whether or not you wish to wait for the release of Songs of Experience to be included in this project? I'm hesitant, as I know songs sometimes "grow" on people or fall out of favor in time.
When time comes, I will carefully detail the ground rules for the survey and what's what. But again, please post if you're interested and willing to participate!
After so many years on Interference I've gotten to know how much we all love to share our Top 10's. Your top U2 songs, your favorite albums, your favorite U2 eras, etc. etc.
So, I figured instead of asking the same question over again, why don't we as a group of fans see what we think of collectively? I'm proposing something a bit wild - a large data project where you get to go through and rank approximately all of U2's songs on a scale from 1 to 10; 10 being flawless, 5 being ok, and 1 being a really bad song, with varying amounts of good and bat in between.
As I'm currently caught between two lives, I have a lot of extra time on my hands, and have already set up the playing field via means of Excel and Python to not only create a sample of all of the songs in order from best to worst, but also search for interesting trends across various demographics (age, gender, nationality, poster count, etc.), and search for interesting trends across albums, eras, release types, etc. etc.
This project is an opportunity to create a unique result - does Interference (and assumedly thereby big U2 fans) generally agree on a ranking of songs? Are there any interesting trends across demographics and the way we value U2's music? Do we as a group have a consensus on which albums are the best and which are the worst?
The survey itself will take some time for you to complete. You're more than welcome to rank songs without listening to them, however if you do not know a song you are obliged to listen to it to get an opinion, as every question on a survey must be answered for your data set to be valid (and thereby validate data sets on songs/albums/etc.). It will take time, but if enough people are willing to join in, it can produce some cool results!
If you are interested please respond to this thread. Surveys will be distributed via google drive or via email, but your responses are kept anonymous in the presentation of the results. For everyone interested, would you please indicate whether or not you wish to wait for the release of Songs of Experience to be included in this project? I'm hesitant, as I know songs sometimes "grow" on people or fall out of favor in time.
When time comes, I will carefully detail the ground rules for the survey and what's what. But again, please post if you're interested and willing to participate!