Infographics: Artist Map

Paul Lamere of Music Machinery made this interesting map of favorite musical acts by state. This map is not a map of the most played artist in each state, one requirement was that only one artist could be assigned to each state.
Paul explains "For this study, I sampled the listening preferences of about a quarter million listeners that have a zip code associated with their account. update: Listener data is drawn from a variety of music streaming services that are powered by The Echo Nest. I aggregated these listeners into regions (state, regional and all-US). To compare regions I look at the top-N most popular artists based upon listener plays in each region and look for artists that have a substantial change in rank between the two regions. These artists are the artists that define the taste for the region."

StatRat?

People may wonder why this blog is called "statrat"... There is never any posts about stats?
The reason being is that I am a statistician, but I also love other things. Like music and art. And I assume people are not that interested in statistical science enough to freshen up on their down time. Well, I am posting this because people ask me all the time, "What do you study? Statistics is so broad". I always then give some super summed up version. But, I stumbled upon this video and was blown away. This is pretty much exactly what I do. Except, expressed beautifully and artistically. (I know art and science in one post... I am getting a chubby)

Global weather reconstructions from National Maritime Museum on Vimeo.

Except once the weather patterns are recreated. I build models to predict future patterns, with the reconstructed data from the past to train the model's algorithms.