/Stats101a-Final-Project

Spotify Songs Analysis

spotify-songs-analysis

This is the final project for stats101a spring20 from UCLA taught by professor Robert Gould and TA Xinzhou Ge The dataset we will be using can be found at processed_dataset.csv.

We adapted the [dataset from kaggle)[https://www.kaggle.com/zaheenhamidani/ultimate-spotify-tracks-db] containing songs of 27 genres.

Team Member

  • Danni Chen
  • Yufeng Zhang

Data Codebook

CSV files

Attributes

There are 14 attribuets we used in our analysis (equally_sampled_songs.csv)

Numerical

  • popularity: popularity of the song
  • acousticness: acousticness of the song, 0-1 indicates how confidence Spotify thinks this songs is acoustic, higher value means the song is more likely to be acoustic.
  • danceability: dancibility, higher means easier to dance to the song
  • durations_s: duration of the songs in seconds
  • energy: energy of the song, higher means more energetic
  • instrumentalness, the closer the instrumentalness value is to 1.0, the greater likelihood the track contains no vocal content.
  • liveness: liveness of the song, higher means the song is likely to be a live recording
  • loudness: loundness of the song, the higher the lounder
  • speechiness: speechness of the song, the higher the value, the more spoken word the song contains. Speechiness detects the presence of spoken words in a track. The more exclusively speech-like the recording (e.g. talk show, audio book, poetry), the closer to 1.0 the attribute value.
  • tempo: The overall estimated tempo of a track in beats per minute (BPM).
  • valance: valence of the song, higer means positive mood such as happy, cheeful, lower means negative mood such as sad, angry and depressed.

Categorical

  • genre: Genre of the song (27 unique genres in this dataset)
  • key: The estimated overall key of the track, such as A, A#, B, C, C# etc. (12 unique keys in total)
  • mode: The modality (major or minor) of a track, the type of scale from which its melodic content is derived. Major is represented by 1 and minor is 0.

All attribuets are defined by Spotify, details are available at Spotify for Developers