Spamology is a live audiovisual representation of word frequencies in spam E-mail messages that was developed during Visualizar07, a data visualization production workshop held at MediaLab Prado, Madrid, in November/December 2007. The online version of Spamology is silent.

The visualization is based on the analysis of a private archive of spam messages which were collected over 10 years (1998–2007), containing up to 2,000,000 emails from various parts of the world. Spam data is visualized in a 3D landscape, where popular words are represented as rectangular structures of various heights, illustrating the occurrence rate of each word per year.

Spamology is part of Irad Lee’s ongoing research examining the nature of spam as a phenomenon of digital culture. The project aims at visualizing the links and interrelationships between the contents of spam, the user / individual and the society. It does so by revealing patterns in spam which may reflect cultural and social trends, behaviors and variations.