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

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

2007/3/25, Jan van Thiel <jan at palinka0.nl>:
> Hi,
>
> Great idea!
>
> I do have some remarks as to why some data sources might not work as
> well as anticipated:
>
> On 3/22/07, sharon myrtle <sharon.myrtle at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> There are also a lot of releases that just group music based on
> release dates ("Best of the sixties", "Best of 2006"), not on
> similarity.
>
> > 2)       Search Logs - one user searching for a number of artists also gives
> > an indication of similarity.
>
> I actually use the search mostly for editing purposes.
>
> > 3)       Artist Subscription - the artists that MusicBrainz users subscribe
> > should also yield some information.
>
> To a certain degree; I am for example subscribed to all artists with
> Dutch language titles to check capitalization etc. These artists cover
> a lot of genres.
>
> Anyway: nice ideas!

I had about the same reservations, then I thought that statistically
they probably wouldn't be very important. And I suppose adjusting the
coefficients to each type of data could further enhance the
statistical relevance of the results.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria