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Analyzing the Evolution of Linkin Park's Music with Pandas

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Re: Analyzing the Evolution of Linkin Park's Music with Pandas

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data_8301 wrote: post #2

Hi, author of the post here. I thought it'd be nice to post some information about the analysis. I got some audio features (loudness, energy and valence) for Linkin Park's songs using the Spotify API. In the post, I do an album-wise analysis of these features, and how they vary across and within the albums using the Python Data Analysis Library, Pandas. I try to articulate the general progression in style through the…

Fun analysis! It's great that you visualize both mean and std deviation. Having them in two graphs side-by-side makes it a bit hard to read though, as you have to go back and forth.

Using for example a box-plot (https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/visualization.h...) could show the mean/std in a more comprehensible way by having it in a single plot.

Re: Analyzing the Evolution of Linkin Park's Music with Pandas

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Jaruzel wrote: post #8
catiguana wrote: post #6

I didn't know the framework, I seriously hoped it included actual pandas.

Me too. Quite disappointed to be honest. Was hoping for "We put headphones on 7 pandas and analysed their reaction to Linkin Park's best known songs. 5 out of 7 pandas agreed that the 'Living Things' album wasn't very good."

That is part 2 of the blogpost. I'll be putting headphones on pandas and they'll be outputting the mood of each Linkin Park song.

Re: Analyzing the Evolution of Linkin Park's Music with Pandas

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w-m wrote: post #11
data_8301 wrote: post #2

Hi, author of the post here. I thought it'd be nice to post some information about the analysis. I got some audio features (loudness, energy and valence) for Linkin Park's songs using the Spotify API. In the post, I do an album-wise analysis of these features, and how they vary across and within the albums using the Python Data Analysis Library, Pandas. I try to articulate the general progression in style through the…

Fun analysis! It's great that you visualize both mean and std deviation. Having them in two graphs side-by-side makes it a bit hard to read though, as you have to go back and forth. Using for example a box-plot ( https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/visualization.h... ) could show the mean/std in a more comprehensible way by having it in a single plot.

Thanks for the tip! Will keep that in mind going forward.

Re: Analyzing the Evolution of Linkin Park's Music with Pandas

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kelsolaar wrote: post #3
data_8301 wrote: post #2

Hi, author of the post here. I thought it'd be nice to post some information about the analysis. I got some audio features (loudness, energy and valence) for Linkin Park's songs using the Spotify API. In the post, I do an album-wise analysis of these features, and how they vary across and within the albums using the Python Data Analysis Library, Pandas. I try to articulate the general progression in style through the…

Excellent work! I'm not a Linkin Park fan although I listened a lot to their albums especially the two first ones. I slowly stopped listening when they released their subsequent albums which correlates with the "energy" loss your data analysis depicts!

Thanks! Same here, listened to the first two albums a lot. Had moved on to other genres by the time they released the other albums. When I tried to go back to LP, there were just too many albums to figure out which one to start with. But after doing this analysis, I feel like I should check out Hunting Party since its the closest to the first two albums.

Re: Analyzing the Evolution of Linkin Park's Music with Pandas

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data_8301 wrote: post #2

Hi, author of the post here. I thought it'd be nice to post some information about the analysis. I got some audio features (loudness, energy and valence) for Linkin Park's songs using the Spotify API. In the post, I do an album-wise analysis of these features, and how they vary across and within the albums using the Python Data Analysis Library, Pandas. I try to articulate the general progression in style through the…

This is a very cool project! Would you be interested in performing the same analysis of Nine Inch Nail's discography? I am happy to chip in financially for such an analysis if the results would be open.
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