Exploring Geospatial Music Listening Patterns in Microblog Data

Microblogs are a steadily growing, valuable, albeit noisy, source of information on interests, preferences, and activities. As music plays an important role in many human lives we aim to leverage microblogs for music listening-related information. Based on this information we present approaches to estimate artist similarity, popularity, and local trends, as well as approaches to cluster artists with respect to additional tag information. Furthermore, we elaborate a novel geo-aware interaction approach that integrates these diverse pieces of information mined from music-related tweets. Including geospatial information at the level of tweets, we also present a web-based user interface to browse the “world of music” as seen by the “Twittersphere”.