Scraper + Data Analysis of the online publication Pitchfork
- Mining data from every 8.0+ Pitchfork reviews, such as hyperlinks, other albums/artists mentioned in the review, italic words, etc.
- Determining what are some of Pitchfork’s favorite words
- Using Markov Chain & n-grams to generate Pitchfork-esque sentences & paragraphs.
- Automatically produce charts and tables of different artists’ scores via Python.
A web crawler that extracts and collects data from the trendsetting music publication to analyze shifts in their favorite artists and genres, the most common complimenting and deprecatory words used in their reviews, pitchfork’s overall writing style, similar artists map, etc.