Take Home Exercise

Part 1 - Understand Sailor’s Profile

1. Who has she been most influenced by over time?

goal: understand her style roots and originality

  1. who shaped her music identity

    • source: song / album

    • target: sailor’s song / album

    • edge: InStyleOf, InterpolatesFrom, CoverOf, LyricalReferenceTo, DirectlySamples

    • further: find the artist who create the song

  2. behind-the-scenes influencers of her lyrics/melodies

    • source: person

    • target: sailor’s song / album

    • edge: ComposerOf, LyricistOf

    • note: this might also relate to who she collaborate.

    • other interpretation: who compose her song, and how many this person has help Sailor? and any other artist / sosng this person compose for?

  3. understand how her inspirations evolved, especially before vs. after 2015 or during Oceanus Folk’s rise

    • source: song / album

    • target: Sailor’s Song / album

    • edge: InStyleOf, InterpolatesFrom, CoverOf, LyricalReferenceTo, DirectlySamples

    • goal: temporal mapping of influence trends

  4. Reveals what genres she pulls inspiration from (e.g., Oceanus Folk, Jazz, etc.)

    • source: song / album (with genre)

    • target: sailor’s song / album

    • edge: InStyleOf, InterpolatesFrom, CoverOf, LyricalReferenceTo, DirectlySamples

  5. Recurring external collaborators shaping her musical production (Production Influence)

    • source: Person / label

    • target: Sailor or her works

    • edge: ProducerOf

2. Who has she collaborated with and directly or indirectly influenced?

COLLABORATE

  1. Reveals her artistic network and immediate creative circle

    • source: person that is not sailor

    • target: shared song / album with sailor

    • edge: PerformerOf

  2. Shows more intimate and long-term collaborations within music collectives

    • source: person

    • target: Musical Group

    • edge: MemberOf

  3. Reveals collaborators across broader creative roles (not just performers)

    • source: person

    • target: Shared song / album

    • ComposerOf, LyricistOf, ProducerOf

DIRECTLY INFLUENCED

  1. Converts influence from work-level to person-level for deeper insight into mentorship or creative ripple effect

    • source: person

    • target: Songs influenced by sailor

    • edge: Performerof, composerOf

    • goal: to know the people behind those works

INDIRECTLY INFLUENCED

| # | Interpretation | Edge Type(s) | 2-hop traversal of same edges | Sailor’s Work → Intermediary Work → Final Work | Shows her indirect contribution to the creative ecosystem |

3. How has she influenced collaborators of the broader Oceanus Folk community?

  1. Connects her collaborations to the expansion of the genre

    • source:

    • target:

  2. Measures the strength of her impact within the genre via collaborators

    • source

  3. Quantifies her influence on the Oceanus Folk genre directly

Part 2

  1. Design and develop visualizations and visual analytic tools that will allow Silas to explore and understand the profile of Sailor Shift’s career

  1. Develop visualizations that illustrate how the influence of Oceanus Folk has spread through the musical world.

    1. Was this influence intermittent or did it have a gradual rise?

    2. What genres and top artists have been most influenced by Oceanus Folk?

    3. On the converse, how has Oceanus Folk changed with the rise of Sailor Shift? From which genres does it draw most of its contemporary inspiration?

  2. Use your visualizations to develop a profile of what it means to be a rising star in the music industry.

    1. Visualize the careers of three artists. Compare and contrast their rise in popularity and influence.

    2. Using this characterization, give three predictions of who the next Oceanus Folk stars with be over the next five years.