Datamob: music

Music Recommendation Datasets

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:37:26 -0500

Two datasets created using the Last.fm API. One dataset is comprised of information about around 360,000 Last.fm users, including basic profile information and artist playcount per user. An additional dataset containing the entire listening history for 1,000 Last.fm users is forthcoming.

Compiled by Oscar Celma.

url: http://denoiserthebetter.posterous.com/music-recommendation-datasets

Discogs API

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:40:22 -0400

RESTful API for the Discogs community-built database of music information. Artist, label and release data is made available through a public domain license.

url: http://www.discogs.com/help/api

Songs Sampled in Girl Talk's 'Feed the Animals'

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:59:10 -0400

Information about the 264 samples used in Girl Talk's Feed the Animals album, along with a few visualizations. CSV format. By Andy Baio.

url: http://waxy.org/2008/09/girl_turk/

Freebase Data Dumps

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:06:28 -0400

Full data dumps of the Freebase shared database of the world's knowledge. Available in tab-separated values format and a low-level link export suitable for converting into RDF or XML. Creative Commons Attribution license.

See also: Freebase API and Freebase Wikipedia Extraction (WEX).

url: http://download.freebase.com/datadumps/

Freebase API

Wed, 07 May 2008 20:50:45 -0400

Query the Freebase shared database of the world's knowledge via a JSON-based query language.

See also: Freebase Data Dumps and Freebase Acre

url: http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000544e14d

White Glove Tracking Dataset

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:52:31 -0400

Data on the location and position of Michael Jackson's white glove in all 10,060 frames of his nationally televised 1983 performance of the song "Billie Jean."

url: http://www.whiteglovetracking.com/

MusicBrainz

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:19:42 -0400

Community music metadatabase.

url: http://musicbrainz.org/

Thinkbase

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:19:59 -0400

Thinkbase uses Thinkmap software to create an interactive visual representation of the semantic relationships in Freebase. Presents a paned view with Freebase on the right and a graphical representation of the topics in that Freebase page on the left. By Christian Hirsch.

url: http://thinkbase.cs.auckland.ac.nz/

Freebase

Wed, 07 May 2008 20:55:44 -0400

Open, shared database of the world's knowledge containing structured information on topics like movies, music, people and locations. Programmatically accessible via the Freebase API.

url: http://www.freebase.com/

White Glove Tracking Visualization Gallery

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:53:37 -0400

Gallery of animations and visualizations created from the White Glove Tracking dataset of the location and position of Michael Jackson's white glove during his nationally televised performance of "Billie Jean."

url: http://www.whiteglovetracking.com/