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Prepare Your Data For Analysis: Load Data With Spoon

04/11/2013 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

Note: The instructions described here is learnt and utilized while working on the Clouds & Concerts project at University of Oslo in close collaboration with Xin Jian, Johannes Bjelland og Pål Roe Sundsøy under supervision by Arnt Maasø. The credit for methodology and SQL ninja tricks is therefore to be attributed to all members of the fantastic stream team. Inconveniences or mistakes are solely my own. Technical set up We chose to use Amazon as a solution for doing our…

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Screenscrape av Øya-programmet

18/08/2013 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

Forskningsprosjektet Sky & Scene, hvor jeg jobber, ser blant mye annet nærmere på strømmetallene fra WiMP før, under og etter Øya-festivalen. For å gjøre dette trenger vi en liste over hvilke artister som spiller, hvilken dag de spiller og når på dagen de spiller. Før dataene kan analyseres må disse dataene være tilgjengelige i Excel-ark og i CSV-format og i databasen hvor strømmetallene finnes. Dataene må hentes og struktureres i et bestemt format. Et godt utgangspunkt er å samle dataene…

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Bilder fra Øya-festivalen

14/08/2013 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

Jeg var så heldig at jeg fikk vært på Øyafestivalen 2013 for Sky & Scene, forskningsprosjektet jeg arbeider for. Her er et utvalg av bildene jeg tok av band og publikum. [AFG_gallery id=’1′]

Work programmatically with Google Spreadsheets

03/02/2013 Ola Løvholm Comments 2 comments

Some time back I authored a script which reads through a CSV formatted list, and based on the artists’ names tried to decide the nationality of the artists by querying the last.FM search engine and parsing the XML structured result. The script worked, and found and returned about 80% of the artists, and around 80% of these again had the conceptually similar artist. What if the alteration could be done in the document itself? For the CSV based script the…

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Facebooksider som RSS

30/01/2013 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

RSS er super-praktiskt. Enten om du bruker laptop, tablet eller mobil så er aggregerte kilder gull verdt. Hvor digg er det ikke å kunne samle alt du ønsker å lese i en leser (f.eks Google Reader) eller til og med automatisk oppdatere nettbrettet ditt med de nyeste sakene fra dine favorittkilder? Her er en liten oppskrift på hvordan du kan gjøre dette på facebook sider du følger. Det er ikke alltid at social feed plukker opp disse, og dessuten er…

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Data-wrangling: find country based on artist name

11/11/2012 Ola Løvholm Comments 1 comment

At the Clouds & Concerts project at the University of Oslo we are working with really interesting topics, based on interesting empirical data. Through our collaboration with the Norwegian streaming service provider WiMP we are together with Telenor and WiMP analysing a vast collection of data. More about the project’s data-part, also the ‘Clouds’ part of the project’s name can be found on the project’s web sites. Artist and Country One of the tasks at hand was to find out…

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The Music in the Clouds

11/02/2012 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

I have got a new job. For the last one and a half month I have been working as a research assistant on the research project “Clouds & Concerts” (Norwegian: Sky & Scene). The project is a collaboration between the Department of Musicology and the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo as well as the Norwegian streaming service WiMP, Telenor and SINTEF and seeks to understand how the new music technology paradigm has affected music listening,…

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