Influir – Artist ’ s Influence Graph

Artists get influenced by each other. This is reflected in their artworks. Getting inspired by each others’ work of art is common and indivisible to art world. The study of these influence graphs gives some insight into how the world of art works. Using the standard social networking algorithm we can calculate the level of influence of an artist based on the data about the influencing and influenced artists. Based on this idea, we aim to construct an influence graph of filmmakers and provide a platform to explore a set of influential movies. This influence graph can be used to extract important information about the film industry and major influencing people in it. We have used this influence graph to find the movies which are most related to a given movie based on the influences on the director of the movie. This has resulted in a very good movie recommender system which finds the most influencing movie related to the given movie.