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Artist similarity, familiarity and hotness
The Echo Nest developer web services offer a number of interesting pieces of data about an artist, including similar artists, artist familiarity and artist hotness. Familiarity is an indication of...
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The Stairway Detector
Last night I was watching the pilot for Glee (a snarky TV version of High school musical) with my 3 teenage daughters. I was surprised to hear the soundtrack filled with songs by the band Journey,...
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Reidentification of artists and genres in the KDD cup data
Back in February I wrote a post about the KDD Cup ( an annual Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery competition), asking whether this year’s cup was really music recommendation since all the data...
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The Most Replayed Songs
I still remember the evening well. It was midnight during the summer of 1982. I was living in a thin-walled apartment, trying unsuccessfully to go to sleep while the people who lived upstairs were...
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Minimizing my Karaoke pain
Rumor has it from some of the Echo Nest gang that went to Stockholm last week for new employee orientation that there is some sort of mandatory Karaoke requirement. Now for some, I’m sure this is...
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How Students Listen
The Spotify Insights team took a deep dive into some of the listening data of college students to see if there were any differences in how students at different schools listen. We looked at a wide...
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50 Years Ago in Music
There’s a strong connection between music and memory. Whenever I here the song Lovin You by Minnie Riperton, I’m instantly transported back to 1975 when I spent the summer apprenticed to Tom, my future...
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