[music map, a classical music concert visualizer]

Ever ask yourself, I wonder where major-record-label classical concerts are taking place in the world? Does Deutsche Grammophon have more concerts in central U.S. than EMI does? (They don’t.) What about central Europe? Just check out my CS171 final project: “Where’s the music?” (If you’ve never asked yourself these questions before, well, now you don’t have to!)

A few technical details about the project if you’re curious. The visualization was done with the Google Maps API, which is basically a lot of Javascript. We obtained our data from the two websites listed above, using Python scripts to scrape all the data into XML files. This made it convenient to load the data in Javascript later, with all of the fields already well-formatted. Look for a more full-featured, mySQL-driven version soon, as we intend to polish it and add data from more classical record labels.