World of Music
with David Gleich, Matt Rasmussen, Kevin Lang
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This is a 2D layout of artist-artist similarity graph build from the Yahoo! Launch usage data. The projection was first done onto 3D sphere using Semi Definite Programming (SDP) model and then "unrolled" into 2D
PowerPoint presentation: World of Music
Paper (InfoVis 2005 poster extended abstract): The World of Music: SDP layout of high dimensional data
World of Music interactive demo
Screenshots
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Points - artists, colors - genres, edges - affinity due to users. long and weak edges pruned and alpha-blended
PageRank for the artist-artist unsymmetrized graph produces the following ratings
PageRank Yahoo! Launch Top 40!
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1. U2
2. ‘R.E.M.'
3. 'Queen'
4. 'Led Zeppelin'
5. 'Red Hot Chili
6. Peppers'
7. 'Eric Clapton'
8. 'Tom Petty'
9. 'The Rolling Stones'
10. 'Nirvana'
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11. 'Fleetwood Mac‘
12. ‘CCR’
13. 'The Police'
14. 'Green Day'
15. 'Eagles'
16. 'Aerosmith'
17. 'Stone Temple Pilots'
18. 'Coldplay'
19. 'Pearl Jam‘
20. Pink Floyd
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21. 'Sting’
22.‘The Doors'
23. 'Foo Fighters'
24. 'Radiohead'
25. 'Jay-Z'
26. 'The Cure'
27. 'Ludacris'
28. 'DMX'
29. 'Tupac Shakur'
30. ‘Jimi Hendrics
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31. 'Dr. Dre‘
32. ‘50 Cent'
33. 'Fabolous'
34. 'Busta Rhymes'
35. 'Aaliyah'
36. 'No Doubt'
37. 'Weezer‘
38. 'Nelly'
39. 'Third Eye Blind'
40.
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 | Direct interpretation: if you browse the Yahoo! Launch data long enough follow recommendation of other users you have the highest probability to end up listening U2 |
| One can also interpret this as the influence ranking |
Thanks Farial Shanaz for the help with presentation preparation