Brian Whitman, co-Founder/CTO of the Echo Nest, shows off some scary things, some beautiful things and some exciting things about the integration of data into music.

1. Music data is
scary & beautiful & exciting
Brian Whitman
@bwhitman
co-Founder & CTO, The Echo Nest
@echonest
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14. The industry is always watching.
They make invisible decisions from invented data.
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15. A 5MB song unpacks 100MB of information about itself
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Music Acquisition (2001-)

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24. The unintended power of APIs
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25. Music Hack Days
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33. Developers are the future of music
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