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Since I run https://www.music-map.com https://www.music-map.com this naturally caught my eye. Unfortunately, there is no word on the methodology except that th

Since I run https://www.music-map.com https://www.music-map.com this naturally caught my eye. Unfortunately, there is no word on the methodology except that they did it with "the help of YouTube’s geocoded streaming data". Does anybody know what that is?

mfoy_ 9y ago
Why is it that on some maps the artist is very far away from another, but when you click on that artist the original one appears much closer? Is the scale relative? Is there any indicator how scaled up or down the relationships are?
- no_gravity 9y ago
  It's a simulated annealing process that happens live in front of you. Each artist has a desired distance to each other artist and is trying to get to a position that satisfies all these desired distances as good as possible.
anonu 9y ago
How does your music map work? Not too clear on how related artists are picked. Also, I'm guessing that the nyt got some sort of special dataset from YouTube. Geo located streams are priveleged to the content owner, per the YouTube API.
- no_gravity 9y ago
  It is all user driven. The map is based on what people enter at http://www.gnoosic.com http://www.gnoosic.com.
timothy_yt 9y ago
I expect that the data is the same as what is found on the YouTube Artists site, which has music data for different geographic regions. Go to https://artists.youtube.com/insights/location https://artists.youtube.com/insights/location and click on "How is this calculated?".
devotedtoneu 9y ago
This is an aside but I'm wondering if you have any recommendations for finding new music one may enjoy? Frustrated with music recommendation services I built a ruby script this past weekend to scrape my favorite artist's last.fm pages and then iterate on each follower, compiling a list of their likes to sort of crowd-source music recommendations for myself. This too resulted in failure, it seems that the problem is me, I'm far too picky. I'd love to get your insight on any alternative strategies for finding new artists if your likes don't necessarily fit squarely inside genres.

mfoy_ 9y ago

Why is it that on some maps the artist is very far away from another, but when you click on that artist the original one appears much closer? Is the scale relative? Is there any indicator how scaled up or down the relationships are?

no_gravity 9y ago
It's a simulated annealing process that happens live in front of you. Each artist has a desired distance to each other artist and is trying to get to a position that satisfies all these desired distances as good as possible.

anonu 9y ago

How does your music map work? Not too clear on how related artists are picked. Also, I'm guessing that the nyt got some sort of special dataset from YouTube. Geo located streams are priveleged to the content owner, per the YouTube API.

no_gravity 9y ago
It is all user driven. The map is based on what people enter at http://www.gnoosic.com http://www.gnoosic.com.

timothy_yt 9y ago

I expect that the data is the same as what is found on the YouTube Artists site, which has music data for different geographic regions. Go to https://artists.youtube.com/insights/location https://artists.youtube.com/insights/location and click on "How is this calculated?".

devotedtoneu 9y ago

This is an aside but I'm wondering if you have any recommendations for finding new music one may enjoy? Frustrated with music recommendation services I built a ruby script this past weekend to scrape my favorite artist's last.fm pages and then iterate on each follower, compiling a list of their likes to sort of crowd-source music recommendations for myself. This too resulted in failure, it seems that the problem is me, I'm far too picky. I'd love to get your insight on any alternative strategies for finding new artists if your likes don't necessarily fit squarely inside genres.