Popular Music Insights

Analysis and visualization of musical tastes by artists, songs, genres, lyrics, demographics, race, and gender

Outline

I. A geographical examination of the musical preferences across 15 cities -- filtered by artist genre, race, and gender -- based on Spotify streaming frequency.

Example of the interactive map that examines the musical preferences for particular cities

II. Emotional influences and lyrical content mapped by analysis of 70 years of top-charting Billboard songs by genre.

Example of the emotional attributes of hit songs over the last 70 years:

Technologies Employed

File Descriptions

wordcloud_data

Data retrieval and analysis of lyrics from lyrics.wikia.com scraped HTML; generation of word cloud images from WordCloud (using matplotlib/Python).

emotion_analysis

Data retrieval and analysis of lyrics data supporting the Plotly bubble charts in vis_integration/static/bubble_charts

country
- billboard_country.csv Top country hits and lyrics
- country_bub_form.csv Output from country_bubble.ipynb
- country_bubble.ipynb Converts country_combined.csv into format for bubble plot.
- country_combined.csv Output from country_exploration.ipynb
- country_exploration.ipynb Takes country_lyr_results and combines together into one source in country_exploration.ipynb and stored as output in country_combined.csv
- country_to_watson.ipynb Watson Personality Insights API call and analysis. Converts billboard_country.csv into country_lyr_results.
- country_lyr_results Output from Watson API
pop
- billboard_pop.csv top pop hits and lyrics
- pop_bub_form.csvOutput from pop_bubble.ipynb
- pop_bubble.ipynb Converts pop_combined.csv into format for bubble plot.
- pop_combined.csv Output from pop_exploration.ipynb
- pop_exploration.ipynb Takes pop_lyr_results and combines together into one source in pop_exploration.ipynb and stored as output in pop_combined.csv
- country_to_watson.ipynb Watson Personality Insights API call and analysis. Converts billboard_pop.csv into pop_lyr_results.
- pop_lyr_results Output from Watson API
rnb
- billboard_rnb.csv Top R&B hits and lyrics
- rnb_bub_form.csv Output from rnb_bubble.ipynb
- rnb_bubble.ipynb Converts rnb_combined.csv into format for bubble plot.
- rnb_combined.csv Output from rnb_exploration.ipynb
- rnb_exploration.ipynb Takes rnb_lyr_results and combines together into one source in rnb_exploration.ipynb and stored as output in rnb_combined.csv
- country_to_watson.ipynb Watson Personality Insights API call and analysis. Converts billboard_rnb.csv into rnb_lyr_results.
- rnb_lyr_results Output from Watson API