Call it taxonomy, classification, even organization — it is what we use to make sense of almost everything around us. We build systems and put things in logical, labeled boxes that help us comprehend the world.

Why shouldn’t the same be true for the artist? As online activity around artists continues to soar, so does the amount of accompanying information. Streams, likes, comments, events, releases — every interaction between artists and fans is recorded as a data point. We know this data is valuable, but we also know that without context it doesn’t really do us much good.