Visualizing Music Choices by Age and Gender

From ReadWriteWeb:

I do find this example of the types of metadata that can be mined out of user profiles and user behaviours and then made visual very interesting.

Check these out:

Rock ‘Til You Plot with Last.fm

Music preferences by age and gender plotted on a wordcloud:

Music search terms by age and gender in Last.fm profiles:

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Now, I wonder what a library patron aggregated borrowing cloud plotted by gender or age would look like? And think of doing this based on authenticated users based on academic year searches or website use…

Fascinating.

Stephen