showing both median and mean is key because a single bust-out (one large number in the gap chart for that show) pulls the mean up ... but a low median indicates most of rest of songs were in heavy rotation (low gap number) ... so the separation between ⚫ and 🟥 is important

need to keep developing 🤔

yea, could pick a dozen or so 'heavy hitter' tunes and somehow plot the median durations by era for multiple songs together ... need to think about that 🤔 ... maybe each song as a unique color

that'll need to wait for another day

and visualized as 'box and whisker' plots ... bold horizontal line in middle of colored boxes is the median value, box extents are the interquartile range, and outliers shown as dots

here ya go ... I did this very quickly

plot of duration/length (in minutes, vertical axis) over time (horizontal axis) with the HF Pod Mt. Rushmore candidate performances in orange

just for fun ... maybe it provides some context for the discussion 📈🤓

oh wow, glad these are available and accessible 🙌 ... hope to get into them soon

this conversation with Charlie and Andrew was fantastic, was very interesting to hear about the evolution and approach to jamcharts

and, wow, Brinkman has an exciting 'internship' with the team coming up, he must be walking on cloud nine this morning

whenever I listen to the first few notes of this come out of Trey's guitar, I picture Page, Mike, and Fish grinning nervously and thinking to themselves "holy shit, here we go"

yep ... and I know everyone comes for the Gin but all of it is amazing ... including the Uncle Pen, which is both playful and tight as shit

and these textures of the current era aren't only Trey/Page/Mike but also Fishman's fundamental playing style ... in many of those late 90s jams he plays it pretty straight (in the pocket, solid backbeat groove) ... nowadays he can be all over the kit ... a percussion rinse, if you will

yes! ... it is maybe the most spectacular segment of an all-time spectacular show ... the transition back into Reprise is breathtaking

I did not know this ... so, is not just you

I don't even know where to start ... when I have a moment of wanting to explore, I become overwhelmed with the catalog

and, finally ... I computed the median gap after removing outliers (defined as values outside of 2 standard deviations, a common approach) ... just a smidge better than above

none of this really matters, it's just nerdy fun ... if you all keep proposing these ideas on the pod I'll do more of this

I couldn't resist doing some more on this ... here is the median gap (middle value of distribution) instead of the average gap ... still a poor correlation but a little better; at least the blue trend line in the direction that supports the hypothesis

nice! ... I took your computed '# of 20/25 minute jams per show' stat and put into these simple bar plots ... just to help visualize

my gosh ... 2021, 2024, and 2025