Discussions → Stats Ideas

There are a lot of data out there waiting for some ideas about how to present it, do you have an idea about a cool stat that can be created using the last.fm data? post it here! maybe someone can make it reality

I have some, but because of my involvement with Group Mapper they all sort of revolve around mapping things :) Ah, the obsession will pass away soon, hopefully.

For starters, how about this.
You give a script Artist's name and it draws you a map, similar to my Group Maps, but what gets plotted is Top Listeners page.
What kind of sucks here is that we don't have enough feeds to play with, all the ones on audiscrobler.net are getting boring and used up. So this map that I described will only rely on Top Listeners country split up, so it will not be accurate. But I guess it will still show a general trend.
Anyways, it's 1am and I'm tired, so I'll script the script(yay, good ol' tautology) tomorrow.

How about adding more to that AMAZING app:

http://music.aves-reich.de/weekly.php

by comparing 2 time-period charts and then see the changes (up/down/equal) the bands went through... that'd be the coolest!

With this we could see the differences between our current charts and charts from last year at the same time, or 3 months ago, or 2 years ago, etc...

@mega_codem

you have inspired me about the map stats :), what about a map that shows the nationalities of your neighbours?

How about Total # of Unique Artists played.

...Or a pie graph with styles of music being represented by different colors.

...Or a chart that somehow measures how many people listen to what U listen to.

...# of times people have listened to Ur stations.

I used to love Tallion's Extended Stats but the last few weeks it gives blank pages for me. Tallion's website says:

Blank page after hitting the submit button? In that case you have more musical data than the script can handle. Try a shorter period or wait for an offline version. (But you would wait pretty long, I guess...)

That's probably my problem. I'd like to see extended charts for my whole last.fm history. Maybe would anyone be so kind to make an offline version or something? The things I liked most in this tool are that you can sort your artist on the amount of week you played at last 1 (or more) track of them and that it creates a list down to the bottom that also includes the artist you only played once. Please make this tool also avalable for larger chart histories.

i really like the wave graphs... what about adding an option to display tags (from bands you've played at that time) as wavegraph?!

how about something like an artist connection map.



(click to view large version, or click here for interactive version)


i made this by making a table of my top artists and their similar artists in my top 50.
(if you take also the similar artists, that are not in your top 50 it gets very unclear)

had the idea as i viewed the site Many Eyes (because of this post) and thought the "network diagram" stat would be a great idea to visualize this.


edit: maybe the size of the dots could represent the number of plays instead of the number of connections

yeah i know it. but it gets very overcrowded if you click too much artists.

i thought of something, that shows only the connections of the top 50 artists, or even fewer.

maybe with tag data, like this:

(i have too much time^^)

in near future i'll attend a festival with a mind-blasting line up, it seems that 8 artists (my nr. 1,2,3,5,10,16,32,39) of my top 50 artists will play.

somebody could find the passion to create a tool that compares my listening habits with a festival.

wouldn't that be great?

meanwhile,

~~~ hang loose

I wrote a journal post a while back about the possibility of comparing the musical tastes of different countries and did a bit of Excel-based calculation to try it out, but never got as far as webbifying it or even automating it at all.

The post is here:

http://www.last.fm/user/SEoD/journal/2006/12/16/291223/

Unfortunately I still can't seem to find any feeds for the charts of each nation, so it'd be a screen-scrapy effort at best.

Any takers?

Thanks for the hint!
I guess these recommended events are calculated the way im looking for.

But - my point was more:
How "Festival XYZ" is somebodys top 50's list?

Like:
John is 87% festival X.
Peter is 62% festival X.

Or:
John is 87% festival X.
John is 30% festival Y.

Would be handy to choose a suitable festival, and interesting to see who fits most/more/less to a certain festival.

Well, how about something that'll calculate how much music you've listened to? Not total tracks but something more like the Normalizer that'll calculate how many hours of music you've listened to.