The Pirate Pie

How much is piracy hurting the music and film industries? Do pirates have better taste than legal consumers? What geographic trends exist in the distribution of pirated content?

The Pirate Pie was selected to be developed during the Visualizar’09: Public data, data in public workshop, to be held from November 12 through 27, 2009 at Medialab-Prado.

During Visualizar, our project will have three phases. First, we will brainstorm the questions this data could (visually) answer. Second, we will code prototype visualizations relating to as many of our questions as possible. And finally, we will decide which questions have the most beautiful, stunning, surprising, or elegant answers, and we will build polished results. The results will of course be visualizations—whether interactive, print, animation, or otherwise—and will be delivered at the end of Visualizar and on ThePiratePie.org.