Music data is scary, beautiful and exciting

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Brian Whitman, co-Founder/CTO of the Echo Nest, shows off some scary things, some beautiful things and some exciting things about the integration of data into music.

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Music data isscary & beautiful & exciting

Brian Whitman @bwhitman

co-Founder & CTO, The Echo Nest@echonest

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The industry is always watching.They make invisible decisions from invented data.

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A 5MB song unpacks 100MB of information about itself

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Music Acquisition (2001-)

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The unintended power of APIs

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Music Hack Days

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Developers are the future of music

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