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Mapping the Flow of Musical Tastes

Interesting mining of data from a social music site (last.fm).

By tapping into the last.fm API, these Irish researchers modeled the geographic flow of musical influence. They were able to identify where certain tastes frequently originated, and draw a hierarchy of influential cities (like the chart shown above for North America).

note – top ranked North American cities: Atlanta, Montreal, Toronto, Chicago.

from original article (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1204.2677v1.pdf): _For us, the most surprising features of ?g. 3 are (1) the middle ranking positions of some of the largest cities, such as NYC and LA in ?g. 3a and NYC and Chicago in ?g. 3b and (2) the prominent position of Canadian cities, especially
in ?g. 3b._

Using Data to Map Geographic Flow of…

Using last.fm Data to Map Geographic Flow of Music By tapping into the last.fm API, these Irish researchers modeled the geographic flow of musical influence. They were able to identify where certain…..