[SamBam]

Very cool. Although I wonder if the analysis really answered the question it set out to ask. The author's hypothesis was that the "entirety of contemporary Italian music rests on the shoulders of Gianni Maroccolo." He then tries to show this by showing who played music with who.

I would imagine that influence could be transferred even without artists playing in each other's bands. I can think of plenty of extremely influential bands that defined the start of a whole genre, whose members never played in another band.

But perhaps the original argument that the author was making was that Maroccolo is important because he played with everyone, in which case this analysis makes sense.

Anyway, cool networks.

[mikk14]

This and the other top comments are right that sharing an artist is only the crudest (and very noisy) way to estimate actual influence. I suppose one way to improve it would be to actually looking at the songs themselves, which might be possible with some deep learning? But that would require to actually have all the songs, which might not be feasible.

[nkko]

vector embeddings of the songs plus coop network