How Easy is This
Fight Song to Shout?
Created by Sakshi Sowmya Aravind • Supply Chain & Finance '28
Fight Songs describe underlying three things: football, music, and college spirit. In football games, hype songs are used to bring up college spirit and motivate the football players. I wanted to use the idea of these underlying factors to represent data.
Stadium Roar Quadrant Map
A fight song is a balance of Tropes and Chants. Together, these components make a song easier to learn, harder to forget, and more fun to shout from the bleachers.
This visualization measures how easy it is for a fan to jump into a university's fight song by plotting each school across four distinct "spirit zones." The position of each song is determined by two main metrics:
This axis tracks the number of classic fight song clichés found in the lyrics. One point was awarded for each mention of:
- Action words: "Victory," "Win," or "Fight"
- Identity: References to "Men" (traditional) or specific team colors
Range: 0 to 8
This axis measures the "sing-ability" of the song. To calculate this, I deconstructed categorical data (whether a song included an element: Yes or No) into numerical values (Yes = 1, No = 0). I then summed the row totals for three specific elements:
- Spelling: Does the song spell out the school/team name?
- Nonsense Syllables: Are there words like "shish-boom-bah"?
- Exclamations: Does the song include a "Rah!"?
Chant Score = Spelling (0/1) + Nonsense Words (0/1) + Rah! (0/1)