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What Can You Learn From Last.FM? (Part II)
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— 2 Aug 2010 Tom 5 comments

In part 1 of this series looking at artist metrics on Last.FM, I talked about PPL (Plays Per Listener) and also the relative popularity of each act’s top track.
In this part we dig a little bit deeper into an artist’s catalogue, with two […]

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What Can You Learn From Last.FM? (Part I)
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— 23 Jul 2010 Tom 3 comments

Last week a question occurred to me: what interesting things can you find out by playing around with Last.FM listening data? Last.FM themselves offer a fair bit of extra analysis to users in their “Playground” section, but it’s all […]

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