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ABOUT THIS DASHBOARD
This interactive visualization explores the lyrical and musical patterns of 65 major college fight songs. Click any node or logo to analyze that school's fight song, or hover over a trope to see which songs utilize it.
- TROPE-O-METER: Tracks which specific clichés show up in fight songs. Click any logo to highlight that school's song, or hover over a trope icon to view
a description of that trope and which songs utilize it.
- JACCARD NETWORK: A network graph connecting songs whose lyrics share at least 75% similarity in tropes calculated by Jaccard index. Mousing over or clicking a node highlights its "neighbors." The color of a node represents the number of tropes in the song.
- SONG TOPOLOGY: A scatter plot of tempo (BPM, ranging from 65 to 180) vs. duration (sec, ranging from 27 to 172) with added densities. The color of a node indicates how many times the word "fight" is sung.
- ORIGIN STORY: An UpSet plot showing how songs were created based off the power set of {Student Author, Contest Winner, Official Song}.
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Built with D3.js by Barnabás Valkó (UW-Madison Math/Stats 2027).
GitHub: valkobarnabas
All logos and songs are the full copyright of their respective universities. This website uses the Segoe UI font family and icons from FontAwesome. On, Wisconsin!