Every year, the Dutch Radio 2 Top 2000 offers an updated dataset with 2000 songs – and every year, it challenges me to create a completely perspective on it.
The challenge to me isn’t what the data is, but how to see it again with fresh eyes. After 14 years of exploring bar charts, Bézier-inspired snow globes, and long-form dashboards, this year I opted for a 3D grid.
This post looks behind the scenes of that process: the design choices, technical constraints, and small visual tricks that shaped this year’s visualization. For the TL;DR people: the interactive dashboard can be found here.
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