Depict or Discern? Fingerprinting Musical Taste from Explicit Preferences
This paper confronts the definitions of musical taste from sociology, psychology and music recommender systems.
The reality behind our music choices
On January 25, a panel hosted by Manuel Moussallam (Deezer) and Thomas Louail (CNRS / Géographie-cités) at MIDEM +
“It’s a three-way ring”: E-hailing platforms, drivers and riders reshaping Accra’s mobility landscape
A multi-faceted account of how e-hailing platforms have blended into the system of actors who operate urban mobility in Ghana’s capital Accra.
MobiTIC
Dates: 2020 - 2024
MobiTIC is a collaborative research program that gathers public research institutions (CNRS, IFSTTAR), the national statistics bureau (INSEE) and the main mobile network operator in France (Orange). We aim to develop a reproductible methodology to produce representative indicators of people presence and mobility, frequently updated and at very fine spatial and temporal scales.
RECORDS
Dates: 2020 - 2024
Through this project we aim to better understand the diversity of individuals musical taste, listening practices and effective music consumptions on streaming platforms. We develop indicators measuring the effects of recommendation (human and machine) on the listening history of users. To fulfill these objectives we combine traditional survey methods with big data analysis. The program is based upon a partnership between social scientists, computer scientists and one of the major music streaming platforms in France.
MOREHOUSE (Modeling hOusing maRkets dynamics thanks to Emerging and HeterOgeneoUs data SourcEs)
Dates: 2019 - 2021
In this exploratory program in partnership with IFISC (Palma, ES) we uncover the structure of real estate agent networks that can be identified from ad data posted on platforms (SeLoger, LeBonCoin, Idealista, FotoCasa). The data are represented using bipartite networks linking agents and ads. The methods used are those of spatial networks science and community detection in ecological networks.
