Tag: visualizations

ListenBrainz Music Neighborhood

The ListenBrainz Music Neighbourhood feature is now live!

Use this arcane technology to find your favourite artist and explore their related artists. Watch the pretty colours. Listen to the music. Race your friends from Napalm Death to Britney Spears. Increase the web size and gasp as the artists jiggle into each other. Or simplify your life by exploring a web size of 0.

Don’t wait! No ListenBrainz account required, try it now: https://listenbrainz.org/explore/music-neighborhood/

A cropped screenshot showing colourful detail from the ListenBrainz Music Neighbourhood feature. In the middle is Red Hot Chilli Peppers, connected with lines to a variety of other artists.
Does this say more about the Red Hot Chili Peppers, or their listeners? (hint: the listeners)
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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”