Happy World Dance Day!
I was hoping to find a dataset with all of the Let’s Dance video game champions from across the years by country. (My daughters have made me try to play that game for years. Suffice to say, I help make participants from elsewhere look great.)
Alas, I couldn’t find – nor could my LLM agents – easily available or reliable rankings and records. Given my work on yesterday’s map, I wasn’t in the mood to spend time hunting down intricate data on dance. (Though, take heart, I won’t say my lack of interest finding dance data is because I concur with Timothée Chalamet about ballet… even if I do.)
Ironically, the US ends up without a particular dance. I’m not sure if that means the contemporary US is truly a melting pot, or if it simply lacks anything of cultural importance, or perhaps the LLM was just boycotting the US after yesterday’s map – which may be understandable these days.
Alas… without further adieu, here is a dance map. Enjoy!
View the mapWeb Map GPT Prompt (GPT 5.4)
View the entire short one-prompt and one-response conversation here.
Or… if ChatGPT is blocked in your country, here is what I asked:
# Intention
Design a fun and culturally informative map for International Dance Day.
I have a CSV dataset of countries with culturally important dances, as well as another field with other dances.
I would love a global map, Equal Earth Projection. When users click on a country, it shows the the country name, predominant dance, and a list of other dance types of relevance. If there is no predominant dance (the field is called something else but similar) simply include important dances.
I would like this map to be colorful and exciting somehow. Perhaps it needs music in the background, which I can supply later. Please give me three ideas to spruce this map up a bit and make it more fun or interactive. Can the countries all be filled with different dance attire types or something maybe, for example?
Also consider which decorative Google Fonts will work for the title and how to make the pop ups festive. Thanks.
Let’s get the map made and then figure out how to spruce it up. Thanks!