Album Types

Welcome to my Album Types page! Here we will explore the different types of albums Dylan has released over the years as well as specific information about his albums. We will analyze data regarding tracks,genres and more!

Power BI Visualizations

These visualizations explore the rate of production over the years and what types of album Dylan released.

tree map displaying the average track count per album type. — This tree map analyzes the average number of track counts per album type,categorized by period.

As the tree map shows,the og albums have the lowest number of tracks among both periods. The average number of track count of the live and comp(compilation) albums among the late Dylan period are higher than the early Dylan period.This could be because the live and comp albums for the late Dylan period also included music from the early Dylan period as well.Wheras all the songs in the live and comp albums in the early Dylan period are restricted to just music that was released during that period.

treemap of instrumentation — This treemap analyzes the top 3 instruments that Dylan used over his entire career. This data includes all 33 original albums. He stays consistent in which instruments he uses.

donut graph displaying the total amount of tracks per period — This donut graph analyzes the sum of the total number of tracks released by period.

The data shows that the late Dylan period had a significantly higher number of tracks released. The previos tree map showed that there was a higher average of tracks in the late period as well.The higher number of live and comp tracks are most likely contributing factors to why the number is so much higher than the early period.

funnel graph that compares number of live and compilation albums — This funnel graph displays how many live and comp albums Dylan released over his entire career.

The data shows that Dylan released more comp albums than live albums.This is most likely because it is generally easier to produce comp albums than live albums. Comp albums are made by taking already existing materrial and compiling the works together.The live albums require more logistics such as talent availiability that could make the production of live albums more difficult than comp albums.

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SVGs

Early on in the project,I collected txt files from eight of Dylan's albums. Four are from his early years(The Freewhiln' Bob Dylan ,Highway 61 Revisited,Blood on the Tracks,Slow Train Coming) and four are from his late years,(Infidels,Empire Burlesque,Time Out of Mind and finally Rough and Rowdy Ways). I chose these albums not only because they are some of my favorite albums of his but because they are representative of his career. The early albums I chose are a similar genres and emphasize his folk and protest music. The late albums I chose represent his experimentation of different genres and music styles. I used AntConc to find the verse frequency among the albums.

This bar graph compares the average number of verses per among the selected albums.

Dylan is consistent among his entire career in verses.

Dylan's average song length increases by almost one minute. Over the years he gets more experimental and makes longer pieces.

This funnel graph analyzes Dylan's top three genres of his career overall.

Over the years,Dylan is consistent about what genres his albums are. At least half of his original albums are considered either folk,folk rock or both.