Project for DS 4100
The data set that I’ll be investigating for my project is the top spotify tracks of 2017. At the end of each year, Spotify compiles a playlist of songs with the most streams over the course of that year. The playlist for 2017, “Top Tracks of 2017: USA”, includes 100 songs. Spotify Web API provides some very interesting audio features for each song. For example: acousticness, danceability, energy, instrumentalness, tempo, etc.
I want to investigate this data and try to determine correlations and trends between these different audio features. In addition to finding patterns in the audio features of these tracks, I also want to try to predict one audio feature based on the others. What do these songs have in common? What makes them so popular?