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Dear all,
On Wednesday, 6th June at 3:00pm, Ben Fields will present the seminar
'Everything you ever wanted to know about Lana Del Rey('s fans), but were
too afraid to ask'.
Please note that the talk will take place at BR.3.02 in the Computer
Science building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London
E1 4NS.
Directions on how to access the building can be found at
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outside Queen Mary, please let me know, so I can make sure no-one is stuck
outside the doors. Details of future seminars can be found at
http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/newsevents/researchgroupevents.php?i=12.
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Wednesday's seminar (6th June, 3:00pm):
Title:
Everything you ever wanted to know about Lana Del Rey('s fans), but were
too afraid to ask
Speaker:
Ben Fields
Abstract:
The ways people find and collect music have changed radically over the
last decade. There is considerably less emphasis on the buying and
selling of physical media as these forms are replaced by purchased digital
downloads and streaming services, alongside a well-established system of
peer-to-peer unlicensed distribution via protocols like BitTorrent. Add
to this the advent of social networks, both general and music-focused, and
the result is a fundamental change in how fans interact with both music
and the artists the produce it. These new forms of interaction all share
a common feature -- they are digitally recorded. During this talk we'll
look these digital interaction breadcrumbs from various social (e.g.
Facebook, Soundcloud) and peer-to-peer (BitTorrent) networks and other
sources. We'll take a look at how Musicmetric handles some of the
problems associated with data collection. Then we'll walk through what
data is available (and machine-readable!) via Musicmetric's JSON API and
look at some example applications of these data-sources.
Bio:
Ben leads Musicmetric's data science team in an attempt to wrangle some
sanity into the Internet's vast supply of horribly formed music data. He
has a PhD from the Intelligent Sound and Music Systems group in the
Computing Department at Goldsmiths University of London. His work there
focused on merging social and acoustic similarity spaces to drive playlist
creation and related user-facing systems. He is an expert on metadata,
structured data, the semantic web and recommendation systems. In his spare
time, he is a co-chair of the annual International Workshop On Music
Recommendation And Discovery, has given an Ignite London talk about beer
styles, occasionally DJs, is an accredited beer judge and homebrews beer.
He thinks bios in the third person are weird but figures that's how
they're meant to be written.
Future C4DM seminars (Seminar details tbc):
Eran Egozy - Harmonix
Wed 13th June 2012
--
Peter Foster
Postgraduate Research Student
Room 104, Electronic Engineering Bldg
Centre for Digital Music
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK
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