HAMR 2014 Proceedings

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====== Artist Discography Network ======

| Authors | Brian McFee and George London |
| Affiliation | Columbia University and LinerNotes.com |
| Code | [[https://github.com/bmcfee/hamr_2014|Github Link]] |
| Result | [[http://porkpie.ee.columbia.edu:3333|Artist network visualizer]] |

[[http://www.discogs.com/|Discogs]] is a community-driven web site for aggregating and curating discography data.  Their data is publicly available and free for use, and is readily accessible by a monthly XML dump. 

In this project, we mined the artist relational data for performer--group connections, and performer biography data.  The ultimate goals of this project include:

  * artist relational visualization,
  * artist network analysis,
  * matching of tracks to individual performers, not just groups
  * and propagation of semantic information from performers (e.g., instrumentation or style) to the track level.

As a first step, we developed a web-based network visualization tool using [[http://d3js.org/|D3]] and some simple text processing in python.

All code is available on github, and subject to a large memory constraint, should be simple to reproduce.

HAMR 2014 Proceedings

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