Hello, Welcome to Extended Mind. This project was impart inspired by Alfred Gell's anthropological theory found in his book, Art & Agency. Essentially, he proposed that the creative and productive work of artists spanned more than a one-way timeline and really took on a x & y dimensional status. While this project does not break down agency and forms, It does bring the idea of dimenstionality to a typical timeline view of an artists output. Requirements to Run: APIs & Authorization: - Spotify API (Client Authorization & Secret) - Spotipy - Python Library for Spotify API calls - Pitchfork API - no-credentials needs, just the library download - Beautiful Soup - Required by Pitchfork API Other - sys - os - Plotly - requests - sqlite3 - lxml - flask Interaction Specs: - Download and install necessary Libraries. - Acquire Access to Spotify API and save them in a separate py file in the same folder called 'secrets.py' - Run 'ExtendedMind02.py' - You will be prompted to open the flask applicaiton in the dev server - Follow the prompts for inputting artist terms. - Play around with the 'place' or color options for the result page. - Choose an information return: Album Reviews, Artist Info, Album Visualization or Summary. - Rinse & Repeat. - See your most - searched term at the bottom of the '/' page. Thank you. See you soon.