Anna’s Archive backed up Spotify. The whole article is interesting about the process and the analysis that they did on the data set. They walked in the home process and including charts class, they even offer a truly random song selection.
Tag: data
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Worldwide music dashboard
If you like music and dashboards, charts, and numbers, here is a very detailed dashboard of the music throughout the world.
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Backing up government data sets
Fascist bureaucrats don’t like facts that contradict their agenda. Backing up government data sets as an act of resistance.
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Narrow the Gapp
Gina Trapani built a data driven web app that displays the pay disparity between men  and women, called Narrow the Gapp. It uses stats from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics by job class.  A very simple design with built in sharing functionality that makes the point.
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The weight of data
All that data that we’re collecting and using, what does it all mean? It requires context and a human element. An excellent TEDx talk by Jer Thorp.
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Kaggle and data prediction competitions
Competitions, where all things being equal, brings out the best results. Nine players on a baseball diamond work through nine innings against nine other players. Open bidding for contracts in response to a proposal to meet a business problem puts companies against each other for the best solution.
Kaggle is a competition market where players (yes, they call participants players) build the best predictive data model for a problem. In one case, individuals created a model to predict auto collisions nearly 3.5 times better than Allstate’s own models. An ongoing competition is seeking to predict health care admittances. That’s powerful stuff.