For this assignment I have taken a random artist (the Eagles in this case). Looked at the five most similar artists according to LastFM. For this five I looked again at the most similar. I did this for a thousand artists in total. To summarize 1000 artists were analyzed for their five most similar bands and their match value (a value between 0-1 on how well they matched). Giving a total of 10000 points.
For this assignment I have made use of the processing software, Temboo libraries and the lastFM API.

I have learned a lot during this assignment. Next to the usual planning learning point I seem to have, I again have taken a different look on how processing can be used. I never worked with this large amount of data acquisition and I think the knowledge this exercise gave me can be definitely helpful in the future.

I am not sure were to with the visualization. While running the gathering I noticed that it was very interesting how several bands had the same connections. I will try to do something with this. The most logical would be to make a spiderweb, yet I feel this is kind of old and done. I am aiming for something more interactive.

A sample from my data:

the code can be found at:
https://github.com/tlangerak/temboo_data/blob/master/IACD_assignment1.pde