Tag: cool data use

How five Queen songs went mainstream in totally different ways

Making graphs is easy. Making intuitive, easy-to-understand graphs? It’s harder than most people think. At the Rochester Institute of Technology, the ISTE-260 (Designing the User Experience) course teaches the language of design to IT students. For an introductory exercise in the class, students are tasked to visualize any set of data they desire. Students David Kim, Jathan Anandham, Justin W. Flory, and Scott Tinker used the MusicBrainz database to look at how five different Queen songs went mainstream in different ways. Continue reading “How five Queen songs went mainstream in totally different ways”

6 degrees of Vince Gill

I’m not sure that we’ve talked about this cool project yet, so I’ll catch up on that now. The new site Six Degrees of Vince Gill allows you to enter an artist name and see how many degrees of separation there are between your artist and Vince Gill. This project comes from Universal Music’ Nashville group — I’m happy to see our data get used in interesting ways like this!

Now, if you want to see someone relate to Vince Gill in seven degrees, have a look at how I relate to him. 🙂

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