RAMA – Relational Artist Maps

Description

RAMA is a prototype web-based application for visualizing and interacting with networks of music artists. It uses data of roughly 200000 artists and 3 million tags, collected from Last.fm’s API. Data includes artists similarities, associated tags and popularity.
RAMA provides two simultaneous layers of information:

1. a graph built from artist similarity data, modeled as a physical system representing nodes as negatively charged particles and edges as springs;
2. overlaid labels containing user-defined tags.

A number of different features aim at providing enhanced browsing experiences to users: RAMA emphasizes commonalities as well as main differences between artists, users can interact with the graph in different ways (changing the graph’s initial ramification R, the depth D and how the ramification decays with depth, the population factor P), etc. Optionally, users can edit graphs manually, removing some artists and expanding artist’s neighbors.

Creators:

• Diogo Costa,Luis Sarmento, Fabien Gouyon

Links

• RAMA Site
• RAMA Application

More Info

• RAMA: An Interactive Artist Network Visualization Tool
• Visualizing Networks of Music Artists with RAMA.
• A Prototype for Visualizing Music Artist Networks