Was just poking around last.fm today and noticed that an Epson ad on the page was asking me to enter my last.fm user name to “see [my] music tastes in color.” Being a visualization nerd i went ahead and entered my name and found myself presented with a little animation of the graph printing from an Epson printer. The ad then linked to a full-sized and branded, of course, graph over at aeracode.org who’ve been doing last.fm visualizations for a while now. Just found the use of social sites’ data visualization an interesting concept in advertising. The full graph is below:
