Last FM Dataset
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Version
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Version 1.0 (May 2011)
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Description
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This dataset contains social networking, tagging, and music artist listening information
from a set of 2K users from Last.fm online music system.
http://www.last.fm
The dataset is released in the framework of the 2nd International Workshop on
Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems (HetRec 2011)
http://ir.ii.uam.es/hetrec2011
at the 5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2011)
http://recsys.acm.org/2011
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License
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The users' names and other personal information in Last.fm are not provided in the dataset.
The data contained in hetrec2011-lastfm-2k.zip is made available for non-commercial use.
Those interested in using the data in a commercial context should contact Last.fm staff:
http://www.lastfm.com/about/contact
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Acknowledgements
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This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (TIN2008-06566-C04-02),
and the Regional Government of Madrid (S2009TIC-1542).
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References
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When using this dataset you should cite:
- Last.fm website, http://www.lastfm.com
You may also cite HetRec'11 workshop as follows:
@inproceedings{Cantador:RecSys2011,
author = {Cantador, Iv\'{a}n and Brusilovsky, Peter and Kuflik, Tsvi},
title = {2nd Workshop on Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems (HetRec 2011)},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th ACM conference on Recommender systems},
series = {RecSys 2011},
year = {2011},
location = {Chicago, IL, USA},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {information heterogeneity, information integration, recommender systems},
}