Network Science Reveals The Cities That Lead The World’s Music Listening Habits

If you live in North America, you’ll soon be listening to the music now playing in Atlanta whereas in Europe, Oslo leads the scene, according to a new analysis of global listening habits

The evidence that ideas and fashions spread through society like viruses or like wildfire is compelling. Numerous studies have examined the networks in which this spread takes place and with increasingly large data sets to work with, researchers have become increasingly confident in their network-centric view of the world. These tools are teasing apart the large scale behaviour of humanity in ever increasing resolution.







Technology Review RSS Feeds

Comments are closed.