The MyStrands recommender system is built on a highly complex network of music relationships. We do our best to sweep a lot of this complexity “under the rug”, so that you can get the best recommendation with a minimum of fuss. However, we think this music network stuff is really interesting, and have been hard at work coming up with new ways of analyzing, visualizing, and leveraging the information in our system. To that end, we’d like to announce Recommendation Mapping. Using this system, you can submit one of your playlists, and “visualize” the playlist and recommendations that are returned from our system. The closer the songs are on the map, the more similar these songs are according to our community listening behavior. You can browse through the map, check out the songs, and listen to some song previews. If you have any questions or comments, we’d love to hear feedback!

Go to MyStrands labs and try it out!