Since this is the opening week for the new N.W.A movie "Straight Outta Compton" I wanted to explore the reach the group has had over the years. Using Wikipedia I pulled the "Associated acts" for the six performers of N.W.A. I continued to pull recursive associated acts until I reached 300 rows. Next, a bit of scrubbing to get the data into a networkable format. This is my first experimentation with paths so a lot of Tableau forum searches went into this!
Using the visualization it's quite easy to see Dr. Dre has the most connections reaching all the way to non- Hip Hop groups like Daft Punk and Fall Out Boy. Interestingly there is a Phil Collins association with Easy-E! I have removed searching options from this visualization so the user focuses exploring rather than checking to see if their favorite artist has an N.W.A connection. Since this is only the first 300 I can only imagine how large the network spans.
Branden @does_data
https://public.tableau.com/views/300ActsAssociatedwithN_W_A/AssociatedActs?:embed=y&:display_count=yes&:showTabs=y
