HACKFACE: Top 250 Last.fm genres
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An extension of HACKFACE (from Music Hack Day Helsinki) that, for each of the Last.fm's top 250 genres (well, technically tags, via www.last.fm/api/show/tag.getTopTags), finds photos of the top 1,000 most listened to artists/bands, fetches, detects faces using a face detection algorithm, intelligently resizes them and composites them into a single image giving you an image of what the average music artist for each genre looks like.
* Dark music has some of the palest skin.
* Smiliest genres include 60s, country, latin, soul, world.
* Metal has some of the palest faces, and the longest hair along with 70s.
* Rnb and soul have afros, and I like to think I can see the dreadlocks for reggae.
* Anything else you can spot?
HACKFACE: Top 250 Last.fm genres
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An extension of HACKFACE (from Music Hack Day Helsinki) that, for each of the Last.fm's top 250 genres (well, technically tags, via www.last.fm/api/show/tag.getTopTags), finds photos of the top 1,000 most listened to artists/bands, fetches, detects faces using a face detection algorithm, intelligently resizes them and composites them into a single image giving you an image of what the average music artist for each genre looks like.
* Dark music has some of the palest skin.
* Smiliest genres include 60s, country, latin, soul, world.
* Metal has some of the palest faces, and the longest hair along with 70s.
* Rnb and soul have afros, and I like to think I can see the dreadlocks for reggae.
* Anything else you can spot?