A Network Analysis of Pop Musicians Similarity

A NETWORK ANALYSIS of POP MUSICIANS SIMILARITYTeam Member: Cindy Liu, Yuxiang ZhangDecember 14th, 2015

THE GOALS!TO UNDERSTAND

TO RECOMMEND

OUR DATA

SOURCERULERESULTTop 1000 hottest artists and their similar artists

1000 Artists1000 Artists* Scraped from Echo Nest on December 12, 2015

NETWORK VISUALIZATION

PAGERANK CENTRALITY

= 0.95 0.7 0.5 0.3 0.1

ARTISTS SIMILARITY CONNECTIONS FOLLOWS A POWER-LAW DISTRIBUTION

SEVENTY FOUR SUB-COMMUNITIES

Mean =11

ARTIST RECOMMENDATION

ARTIST RECOMMENDATION Sum if multiple artists inputs

TASTE PROFILESHORTEST PATHRECOMMEND ARTISTS

Thank you!