https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/the-mountain-goats/ Recent content in The Mountain Goats on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Thu, 20 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/06/20/goat-scope/ Thu, 20 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/06/20/goat-scope/ tl;dr I used {trelliscopejs} to make an interactive ‘small multiples’ display for The Mountain Goats discography. You can interact with an embedded version below or click here to open full screen. Small multiples The {trelliscopejs} R package by Ryan Hafen harnesses the power of his trelliscopejs-lib JavaScript library. What does it do? It provides an interactive interface for visualising, organising and exploring data visualisations in small multiples. What are ‘small multiples’? https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/04/25/gen-tmg-lyrics/ Thu, 25 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/04/25/gen-tmg-lyrics/ John Darnielle with the green-scaled slipcase for In League with Dragons (Merge Records, via Giphy) The Mountain Goats released In League with Dragons today, their seventeenth studio album. John Darnielle has written a lot of words across the Mountain Goat’s back catalogue. His lyrics are poetic and descriptive, covering fictional and autobiographical themes that include substance abuse, professional wrestling and cadaver-sniffing dogs. Can we generate new Mountain Goats lyrics given this rich text data set?