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http://uselesspress.org/things/decapitated-animals-dataset/

Legend
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whole note, half note, third note, quarter note, &c. ~ quantity
stanza ~ borough
instrument ~ head, body, head + body
. ~ bird v not bird
order ~ borough + lng # Order first by borough then by longitude

map ~ lng, lat
color ~ borough
how many icons ~ quantity
icon ~ bird (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28042220/how-to-make-custom-plot-symbols-from-vector-graphics-in-r)
x ~ date (separate panel)
background color on a region of a histogram ~ season
text ~ complaint details, park name
background color of the whole thing ~ .

Something needs to spin or bounce or something. Maybe the heads/bodies.
They could gradually build up the vertices of a regular polygon. Or just a line.
And then they could roll or fall into a date bucket.

Join with other data

* Weather on date of report?
  http://www.almanac.com/weather/history/NY/New%20York/2015-08-31
  http://www.intellicast.com/Local/History.aspx?location=USNY0996
* A correlated ETF?

To do

* Draw bird head, bird body, ground-dweller head, ground-dweller body (four symbols)

Outline

* Left side is a longitude-latitude map of the Earth proportions.
* Each phrase is an incident (deduplicated) or an empty phrase of sorts.
* New icons rotate and gradually populate through the phrase, centered at the date (x) and latitude (y).
* Then they fall into a bucket on the next phrase, populating a histogram along the bottom.