How we can use data science to discover the latest trends in the music industry — Table of Contents Introduction Data Source Setup Exploratory Data Analysis Conclusion Introduction As the world’s largest music streaming service provider, Spotify’s data can provide valuable insight into past, current, and possibly even future trends. In this article, I’ll be analyzing Spotify data on 160k+ tracks released in the past century.

A multiclass classification walkthrough with code — Table of Contents Introduction Data Source Setup Data Preprocessing Training the Model Results Introduction What’s the visual difference between Braeburn and Crimson Snow apples? What about Pink Lady and Granny Smith? If you’re like me and don’t know off the top of your head, here’s where machine learning can help. My goal is to…

Extra! Extra! Read All About It! — Table of Contents Introduction Data Source Setup Exploratory Data Analysis Training the Model Results Conclusion Introduction We can build classifiers to detect sarcasm in news headlines, but what about generating news headlines from scratch? My goal is to build a machine learning model that can do just that. To achieve this, I’ll use textgenrnn…

Why did the machine learning algorithm cross the road? — Table of Contents

The key to stepping up your social media engagement — Table of Contents Introduction Data Source Results Conclusion References Introduction In this fourth and last stop of our Tweet success journey, we’ll tie everything together for the ultimate guide to the perfect Tweet. Throughout the series, our goal has been to predict the number of Retweets a STEM-related Tweet would receive. We’ve scrapped…

When you can’t catch em’ all, you generate em’ all — Table of Contents Introduction Data Source Setup Data Preprocessing Training the Model Results Conclusion References Introduction What is a Pokémon GO fan to do in the midst of a pandemic where leaving the house to catch Pokémon is a no go? Generate their own Pokémon of course! In this article, I’ll be going over…

A machine learning novice’s crack at creating a Tweet success predictor — Table of Contents Introduction Data Source Setup Exploratory Data Analysis Data Preprocessing Training the Model Results Conclusion References Introduction When I first had the idea of building a machine learning model to predict STEM-related Tweet success, I knew it would be tough. But it ended up even more difficult than I had expected.

What the data has to say about Retweets, likes, and replies — Table of Contents Introduction Data Source Setup Exploratory Data Analysis Conclusion References Introduction Searching high and low for what makes a Tweet popular, we’ve scoured Twitter, gathering data on thousands of posts. But finding the secret to Tweet success by scrolling through data entries in an Excel spreadsheet is looking for a needle…

What I learned while failing to create a Tweet success predictor — Table of Contents Introduction Data Collection Conclusion Introduction Whether you are growing a business or wanting your ideas to reach as many people as possible, increasing your social media engagement is the key to victory. But what factors influence engagement? Time of post? Sentiment? Emojis? …