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By: The Gungle» Blog Archive » links for 2008-02-21

The Gungle» Blog Archive » links for 2008-02-21 — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:48:04 +0000

[...] Anonymous Prof » Blog Archive » What Does The Last.fm Friends Network Look Like? Visualisation of the Last.fm social network using Tulip software (tags: data visualization last.fm socialnetworking) [...]

By: last.fm Statistiken, Teil 4: Anderer Leuts Sachen und Sonstiges at andisblog

last.fm Statistiken, Teil 4: Anderer Leuts Sachen und Sonstiges at andisblog — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:21:57 +0000

[...] namens TULIP in Verbindung zusetzen. Wenn er mehr Daten nahm, stürzte sein Rechner ab1. Herausgekommen ist eine tolle Veranschaulichung, die er in seinem Blog auszugsweise veröffentlicht hat. Man kann nicht nur sehen erahnen, wer [...]

By: Visualizing StumbleUpon Top Users And Their Friends | Social Media Trader

Visualizing StumbleUpon Top Users And Their Friends | Social Media Trader — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:50:22 +0000

[...] to understand. After seeing some pretty impressive data visualizations of social networks for Last.fm and Scouta, it occurred to us that it might be interesting to try and visualize the StumbleUpon [...]

By: Anonymous Prof » Blog Archive » A Brief 3D Tour of Classical Music History

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:33:36 +0000

[...] this blog probably know, I’m quite interested in visualizing social networks (for example, Last.fm). One interesting application of this is the visualization of historical movements. I initially [...]

By: Jeremy Meyers

Jeremy Meyers — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:15:28 +0000

I think the thing that needs to be mentioned is that the ‘friends’ capability of last.fm is kind of tangental to the overall site functionality.

That is, you can be a member of last.fm and enjoy all of its tracking/streaming/radio/user comparing functionality and never add a single friend.

This puts this data on a somewhat different level than say, the equivalent dataset for MySpace, whose sole function is connectivity.

By: Anonymous Prof » Blog Archive » Music Preference Dispersion Through the Last.fm Network: Data Collection Approach

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:42:57 +0000

[...] an update on my attempt to visualize more of the data I collected last week. Despite my best efforts, I just can’t get any visualization programs to run all of the data I [...]

By: FreieNetze.de | Last.fm Netzwerk visualisiert

FreieNetze.de | Last.fm Netzwerk visualisiert — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:15:04 +0000

[...] sich dafür interessiert, sollte man einen Blick auf die Seite von “anonymous Prof” wagen, der einen ausführlichen - und wie die Überschrift verspricht- nett visualisierten [...]

By: Links for 2.16.08: Hulu for music? Kareem blogs? Tweens buy?… « the listenerd

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:57:43 +0000

[...] here: Vizzies of Last.fm’s friend network. I don’t friend on Last.fm. [...]

By: Anonymous Prof

Anonymous Prof — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:38:23 +0000

Hey Chris,

What Lee did is amazing. I’m looking to do something similar but on a larger scale (look at multiple users) as well as see if I can map the relationships b/w friends as they affect song popularity. It would be really interesting to see, for example, how my preference for a song over time changes and how that affects my friends preference for a song. I suspect this will be pretty difficult, but certainly doable.

Thanks for the great link!

By: chris herbert

chris herbert — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:29:14 +0000

Great post and the visualizations are really cool. Fred Wilson (avc.blogs.com) had a conversation around visualizing his song listening habits, tangentially related to this post.

Here was one of commenters posting on his analysis and visualizations, Lee Byron at CMU: http://www.megamu.com/lastfm/

And here was online app developed around Lee’s work: http://lastgraph.aeracode.org/about/

Thanks for starting up this conversation.