U2 is currently in New Zealand preparing for the Asian Leg of the Joshua Tree Anniversary Tour. This brief analysis will look at the overall sentiment of the songs that the band might play. In other words…is it a 'feel good' concert experience. There are 3 different sentiment databases available in tidytext, NRC, BING and …
Sleuthing Spotify
It is really a love-hate relationship. The idea of Spotify is so intoxicating! What are Spotify users - across the globe - listening to? How do tastes change across the continents. With one simple little query, the world will have an answer. But, wait, what is this? This data doesn’t make sense? What does this …
Getting Technical
So here goes the first technical post. I know, I know, I really should be using .rmd for this, but I really like Evernote. As I made clear in a very Shakespearean fashion, I was not too impressed with Spotify data, but kudos to them for making the data easy to get to. …
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Signifying nothing. Spotify’s popularity data held the promise of greatness, but in the end, the data available to the average user held few meaningful insights. When a user pulls Spotify data, they are pulling data calculated at that particular point in time. Imagine if a spaceship landed on Earth and took a photograph …
Out, Damn’d Spot-ify!
Out, I say! There is so much about the R Community that I love-the sharing, the creativity, the support. And, like me, other R users are using music to inspire their data analytics. Trying to recreate these analysis posted to websites and blogs, but using my own data, is really helping me master many parts …
Hey! my Flag is Best
What distinguishes one U2 album from another, from a lyrical perspective? If you were to search U2’s catalogue of albums, what search terms would best represent the uniqueness of that album? TF-IDF, Term Frequency - Inverse Document Frequency, is a concept used by search engines to present the most relevant web pages to a user. …
Pop Art II
In data, as in art, it helps to edit from time to time. After summarizing the Lexical Diversity and Lexical Density analysis, it was quite clear that Songs of Experience was a new type of album for U2. Removing Songs of Experience from the dataset, produces a more consistent Lexical Density graph.
Pop Art
Pointillism and George Seurat: such a simplistic idea, delivered in a precise manner, led to amazing beauty and paradox. Up close, there is nothing more to observe than colorful dots on a canvas, but step back and the beauty is breathtaking. A Lexical Diversity and Density Analysis can be similar, it takes very simple ideas …
When a Boy Meets a Girl
Let’s go find out all the things we want to talk about. It was impressive to see how many times “Love” shows up in U2 lyrics. And listening to U2 for so long, it feels like there are other themes that come up regularly. Let’s start creating new variables and find out. Oh the power …
Baby Steps
I may be taking baby steps with this analysis since R is new to me. But I also have the issue of not having any deadlines…yup I am that person. On the plus side, I am not new to analysis or languages. I learned SAS in graduate school - mainly to create time series models …
U2 Love and Logic 