Blog Posts
Occasional long-form writing on data science, applied mathematics, and things I find worth sharing. Posts are published on Medium unless otherwise mentioned.2022
Analyzing Music Trends in the Last Century
November 2022 · CS 334: Principles and Techniques of Data Science
A data science deep-dive into the Spotify dataset, exploring how music has evolved over the last century. The post walks through three stages of analysis — Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA), Statistical Inference, and Predictive Modeling — to answer research questions about shifting trends in tempo, energy, danceability, and genre popularity.
- EDA: Uncovered temporal patterns in audio features, genre dominance over decades
- Statistical Inference: Tested hypotheses on structural changes in music characteristics pre/post-streaming era
- Predictive Modeling: Built models to predict song popularity from audio features