1. Music data is
scary & beautiful & exciting
Brian Whitman
@bwhitman
co-Founder & CTO, The Echo Nest
@echonest

6. 1995 2006 2011?
1999 2004 2009

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14. The industry is always watching.
They make invisible decisions from invented data.

15. A 5MB song unpacks 100MB of information about itself

22. Music Acquisition (2001-)

24. The unintended power of APIs

25. Music Hack Days

33. Developers are the future of music

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