Welcome to VEBP

Visualizing East Bay Punk (VEBP) is a suite of web applications that renders data from the Bay Area punk scene into an accessible, analyzable format. Providing a macro-level view that complements the lived experiences captured by the East Bay Punk Digital Archive, VEBP allows researchers and fans alike to explore the networks, geography, events, and cultural production of the scene through interactive visualizations.

VEBP's Tools at a Glance

• People visualizes the network of band members in the San Francisco Bay Area punk scene, revealing interconnections and overlapping memberships.
• Places is an interactive ArcGIS-based map that displays key punk venues, cultural hotspots, and other counter-infrastructural nodes.
• Words explores themes and semantic relationships in the lyrics of all the Lookout Records releases between 1987 and 1994.
• Shows offers a fast, filterable event search interface to explore over 8,000 punk performances across the Bay Area.
• Gilman delivers an interactive visualization of the Gilman Street Project’s performance history.