[mb-devel] Collaborative Filtering: Artist - Artist Relationships (Summer of Code Proposal)

[sharon myrtle]

Hi,

I am Sharon Myrtle Paradesi, a senior undergraduate student from India. I'm
interested in participating in the Google Summer of Code '07 and the topic
'Collaborative Filtering: Artist - Artist Relationships' of MetaBrainz
Foundation particularly interests me.

Currently, I'm working on Collaborative Filtering Algorithm (specifically
tailored for Indian Movies) as my Final Year Project (nearly done). The data
we worked on had the form of user and movie details along with the ratings
the users gave the movies. We then calculated the correlation between the
users and recommended movies to new users.

I have formed a basic idea of what the proposal should include.

As far as data sources are concerned, these are the places where we could
search for relationships between two artists

1)       Aritist Albums - two artists that are on a compilation together are
likely to be somewhat similar.

2)       Search Logs - one user searching for a number of artists also gives
an indication of similarity.

3)       Artist Subscription - the artists that MusicBrainz users subscribe
should also yield some information.

/* the above mentioned are given in the proposal */

4)       Genres – the artists whose albums belong to similar or same genre
tend to be musically similar.

5)       Ratings/Comments of users – scanning the ratings of users to
various artists and/or comments of users to the albums also provides vital
information.

 .. etc

I've got the following ideas to collect data and generate artist-artist data
–

1)       Scan through all the data sources and write the collected
information into files (such as artist details, album details, user details
etc).

2)       From these files, create and maintain tables of the various artist
names, and corresponding artists with whom he/she is closely related
(musically).

3)       Now we can generate and analyze the relationships between the
artists.

I'd be glad to hear any comments/suggestions on this.
-- 
Regards,
Sharon.
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