Imagine a list of every band. What if there was a way to link the bands based on similarity? Liveplasma.com does just that. The user can enter in his/her favorite band/artist and the site shows a graph of similar bands with the given band in the middle of the graph. Each artist has a bubble, the size of which depends on the popularity of the artist. Each bubble can be clicked, creating a new graph with the clicked bubble being at the center. This site can also be used for movies. Instead of inputting an artist, one can input a movie, actor, or director. Similarly to music, the site will display a graph linking similar movies based on topic and style.
Triadic Closure plays a significant role in these graphs. There are almost no examples where this property does not hold true. In music, if band A is similar to band B, and band B is similar to band C, band A could not be too different from band C. This is what separates music graphs from friendship graphs. In friendship graphs, triadic closure may not always hold true. Even if X is friends with Y and Y is friends with Z, X and Z may not be friends due to some sort of feud between them. The graphs that liveplasma uses are solely based on whether the nodes are similar or not.
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