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Degree, closeness, and betweenness all seem like poor choices to make such an important decision. Why not HITS?
by JohnKemeny 2y ago
Degree, closeness, and betweenness all seem like poor choices to make such an important decision. Why not HITS?
- foul 2y agoYou can't have a correct vision of Italian music (staying only on that subsubsubcategory) of the 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s and 20s like that, at very best you'd end up ignoring significant artists and whole genres.
- anigbrowl 2y agoHITS doesn't refer to musical hit records. It's a network analysis technique. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HITS_algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HITS_algorithm
- foul 2y agoWow it's the first time that I don't know part of what i'm talking about and i'm still right... MySpace is mostly erased (prominent Italian musicians for some music waves of the 00s and 10s were there), some sites are erased, what pertains to radio and television is mostly not indexed on the public internet and there's significant digital divide between genres. In the Italian context, you'd end with a weird pantheon of rock, rap and popstars and not much else left, in conclusion you would... expunge significant artists and whole genres from results.
- NBJack 2y agoI'm not certain HITS could capture what appears to be the temporal component of the network the author incorporates.
- JohnKemeny 2y agoI agree that it's difficult, I don't know much about centrality measures for dynamic networks. However, degree sounds like a bad measure, since the value can be drastically increased by participating in a (few) big project(s).
- mikk14 2y agoAll correct, it was also one point raised by the reviewers. They had some suggestions about temporal centrality, but in the end I didn't followup on that because this centrality analysis was just a descriptive part that didn't really support any of the primary nor secondary claims in the paper.