2007年 04月 2日 月曜日 18:06

Here's a preliminary data mining analysis of a sample population of Last.fm users. An automated classification into clusters or sub populations with related musical genres reveals some of the structure of musical preferences among the users in a relatively large sample population. Musical tag clouds are adopted to characterise users and populations, which adds a highly descriptive value and aids with the interpretation of the results.

Here's a figure from the article, displaying all users in the sample in their colour-coded clusters:

http://anthony.liekens.net/images/cluster12_400.png

Read more at http://anthony.liekens.net/static/DataMiningLastFm.html.