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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…

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…

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,…