This is fantastic. I love it when someone gets obsessed with a topic and just goes all out to drill down and then makes something engaging to show what they've done. The main concern though is the...
This is fantastic. I love it when someone gets obsessed with a topic and just goes all out to drill down and then makes something engaging to show what they've done.
The main concern though is the data - especially being so heavily based on Pandora's dataset, but good on them for sharing their data.
I wonder if there are any huge proprietary datasets that tracks such a broad range of variables like Pandora.
Yeah, same for me. Even the most mundane topic can still enthrall me if someone takes it seriously enough. E.g. The Bob Emergency: a study of athletes named Bob, Part I & Part II by SB Nation I'm...
I wonder if there are any huge proprietary datasets that tracks such a broad range of variables like Pandora.
I'm not sure if they have quite the same breadth of information, but there is quite a few accessible music databases out there. E.g. Musicovery, MusicBrainz, Etc. But as you said, kudos to Pandora for opening up their data to Vox so they could make this video.
Pandora's metadata is powered by the Music Genome Project, which I believe predates the streaming service. It's proprietary and probably more marketing fluff than hard science, but it still seems...
Pandora's metadata is powered by the Music Genome Project, which I believe predates the streaming service. It's proprietary and probably more marketing fluff than hard science, but it still seems to me to be the most comprehensive set in existence.
I'm not sure how much life is left in Pandora the company, but I really hope this data succeeds it and is opened to the world someday.
This is fantastic. I love it when someone gets obsessed with a topic and just goes all out to drill down and then makes something engaging to show what they've done.
The main concern though is the data - especially being so heavily based on Pandora's dataset, but good on them for sharing their data.
I wonder if there are any huge proprietary datasets that tracks such a broad range of variables like Pandora.
Yeah, same for me. Even the most mundane topic can still enthrall me if someone takes it seriously enough. E.g. The Bob Emergency: a study of athletes named Bob, Part I & Part II by SB Nation
I'm not sure if they have quite the same breadth of information, but there is quite a few accessible music databases out there. E.g. Musicovery, MusicBrainz, Etc. But as you said, kudos to Pandora for opening up their data to Vox so they could make this video.
Pandora's metadata is powered by the Music Genome Project, which I believe predates the streaming service. It's proprietary and probably more marketing fluff than hard science, but it still seems to me to be the most comprehensive set in existence.
I'm not sure how much life is left in Pandora the company, but I really hope this data succeeds it and is opened to the world someday.