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Data Challenge #3 - Spotify Tracks

Zane D - January 21, 2021

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Challenge #3 - Spotify Tracks

You are assigned to a team of Data Analysts reviewing musical data over the last 100 years.

Your task is to provide insights about musical trends by Popularity, Energy and Tempo.

Questions 1-4 

  • Who is the most popular Artist of all time?
  • What is the most popular song of all time?
  • Who is the most popular Artist in the last 10 years?
  • What is the most popular Song in the last 10 years?  

(Tip - Use 'Popularity' metric)

Questions 5-9 

  • Create a line graph indicating tempo over all years (1921-2020) - Has it changed?
  • Create a line graph indicating energy over all years - Has it changed?
  • Create a line graph indicating popularity over all years - What does this indicate about the Spotify platform/ music in general? Has popularity increased in music?
  • Create a line graph comparing Tempo by Energy over all years

Question 10 

  • Choose an artist of your choice and create 3 interactive visuals 

Suggestions 

  • Highlighting their Energy/ Popularity of their tracks 
  • Their top track - by Tempo, Danceability, Popularity, etc 
  • Their longest song recorded 
  • Their popularity compared to other artists in the last 5 years 
  • Etc. 

Use the Dataset below

https://www.kaggle.com/yamaerenay/spotify-dataset-19212020-160k-tracks

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