Anything can produce data - it's just better if it's something that people care about. And people still care about The Beatles, even fifty years after the release of Love Me Do.
The Beatles have featured in at least two Datablog posts, including this one, where we scraped every lyric in every song they ever recorded.
But the band - who were fascinated by graphic design - have also inspired much more sophisticated infographics and charts from around the web - and even an online project, Charting the Beatles, run by US-based graphic designer Michael Deal. It has a pretty awesome flickr group too.
These are some of the best.
Who wrote all the songs?
The disintegration of the Lennon/McCartney songwriting partnership is an essential part of the Beatles story. This chart by Michael Deal shows how the songs started off as straight partnerships and changed into competitive individual efforts, punctuated by tracks from Ringo and George.
Hey Jude - as a chart
Are they still bigger than Jesus?
Songs in the key of life
A song dissected
Ten years of hair
Ten years of outfits
Their tours were a tour of baseball
They are the most-covered artists of all time
How they're still making money - from iTunes
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