Fun with Music, Neo4j and Talend by Rik Van Bruggen.
From the post:
Many of you know that I am a big fan of Belgian beers. But of course I have a number of other hobbies and passions. One of those being: Music. I have played music, created music (although that seems like a very long time ago) and still listen to new music almost every single day. So when sometime in 2006 I heard about this really cool music site called Last.fm, I was one of the early adopters to try use it. So: a good 7 years later and 50k+ scrobbles later, I have quite a bit of data about my musical habits.
On top of that, I have a couple of friends that have been using Last.fm as well. So this got me thinking. What if I was somehow able to get that last.fm data into neo4j, and start “walking the graph”? I am sure that must give me some interesting new musical insights… It almost feels like a “recommendation graph for music” … Let’s see where this brings us.
Usual graph story but made more interesting by the use of Talend ETL tools.
Good opportunity to become familiar with Talend if you don’t know the tools already.