Spotify is a music streaming service whose ambition is to offer everyone easy access to all of the world’s music. Maintaining metadata quality is a a nontrivial challenge considering that the catalogue size rules out the possibility for manual curation and that the number of content providers and different delivery formats is large. An interesting problem that involves metadata is to have a one...

This paper addresses the implications of the winner-take-all economy for income inequality among artists. Using the U.S. census public-use samples, as refined by the Minnesota Population Center, it employs the standard measure of income inequality—the Gini coefficient—to examine income inequality among artists in six major metropolitan areas between 1980 and 2000. The paper compares income ineq...

Art is one of life's great joys, whether it is beautiful, ugly, sublime or shocking. Aesthetic responses to visual art involve sensory, cognitive and visceral processes. Neuroimaging studies have yielded a wealth of information regarding aesthetic appreciation and beauty using visual art as stimuli, but few have considered the effect of expertise on visual and visceral responses. To study the t...