Category: data science

Can you predict song popularity

This week we presented our personal projects at Zipfian Academy. It was a lot of fun to see the diversity of topics and analyses. And here is my project: Like many pop-culture driven areas, pop music is driven by hits and hits follow a particular pattern: Many companies (Hit Song Science, Mixcloud, MusicXray, and BandMetrics)…



The long tail

As what happens with other endeavors across the net, I have experimented with a variety of platforms and have left bread crumbs of blogging fits and starts across multiple platforms. To that end, I have decided to restart this one with hopes of it growing organically and persistently, like a daily practice. This is week…