margaretmz / met-museum-data-analysis

Data analysis of the artists and artworks of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Data Analysis and Visualization

This notebook contains data analysis of the artists and artworks of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Project motivation

As I’m interested in using AI for art, analyzing the artist and artwork metadata of the Metropolitan Museum of Art helps me choose datasets for computer vision tasks.

Medium Blog Post

The Medium blog I wrote is posted here.

Installation

I use Colab notebook which comes with the following pre-installed:

• Python 3.6
• Pandas
• Numpy
• Matplotlib
• Seaborn

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank the Metropolitan Museum of Art for making available their open access images in the public domain, and the metadata file about the artists and artworks.

The metadata MetObjects.csv file is available on Kaggle here.

I downloaded the latest version of the metadata MetObjects.csv file from the Metropolitan Museum of Art GitHub repo here.

Images were downloaded from the Metropolitan Museum of Art website here.