Also below is the month-by-month list that shows each gig’s lineup, including only bands I actually saw (at least 3-4 songs by, minimum). Have I mentioned that I don’t actually work in the music industry?Īnyway, if you’re curious, here are some charts below that show the spread of events, the bands and the venues. That’s an average of 6.5 shows per month. The results? Last year I saw at least * 173 bands at 78 shows. Then I connected that data store to my instance of Tableau Public, a free data visualization tool, with which I created a few basic charts. Manually scraping show data from the Google Calendar instance my friends and I use to track events, I dumped every single band and show I saw into a text file, then an Excel spreadsheet. And since I’m as much a data geek as a music geek, I decided to crunch those numbers! I know I ramped up my showgoing considerably this past year, but I was curious to see just how much. And I happen to live in a city (Seattle) that not only gets its fair share of touring bands, but also is home to a number of excellent local acts. Because, quite simply, I love going to shows.
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