# Context The story behind this data set and analysis is just a combination of my interest in data science and metal music. I was looking for interesting data that I could analyze and this happen to be one of the first I started exploring. # Content The world population information was a direct download so I did not have to do any work to get it. This data set consists of population information for countries on earth from the years 1960 to 2015. The metal band information was scraped from the website http://metalstorm.net/ and consists of the following - band name - how many fans the band has on the website - when the band formed - when the band split - the country of origin on the band - the styles of the band # Acknowledgements The metal information was compiled from information found on http://metalstorm.net/, the world population information is from http://www.worldbank.org/. # Inspiration There has already been some great analysis of metal bands on Kaggle, I wanted to contribute to the discussion by adding some new data and looking at it from a slightly different angle. Also I thought it might be useful to share the process by which I came up with the visualizations and data management since the community has been a big help to me.