Fleshmaps: listen ( Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg) counts how frequent body parts appear in lyrics and show images of the body parts sized to its popularity, grouped by genre. Hip Hop, obviously, gets the biggest hip. Most genres have big eyes, followed by hand.

A interesting way to “view” music and genre, I found it amusing at a glance. Here are three things I would like to change, if I redo the work.

1. Change the soft, pale, sleepy pink color in the visualization to something more energetic.

2. Add interactivity. When viewer clicks on one body part, show random sample lyrics instead of numbers accurate to 0.01%.

3. Change visual presentation. Instead of cloud and array of circular images, build a real body with proportioned parts.