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Tag Archives: data mining
My 2021 in music scrobbles
While we’re on a roll with music and metadata, let’s throw coronavirus and statistics into the mix. What I did do was scrobble the metadata embedded within a stash of local MP3 files — usually playing “100 random songs” as background music while going on with my salaried work or other activities. Last.fm has a personal profile on me. This post is about distorted data and false analyses. Continue reading →
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Tagged 2021, data mining, fake news, geek porn, insights, music, music industry, statistics
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Music. Meta. Madness.
In December I had to give a presentation on a topic of my choice. Predictably, the topic I picked involved Discogs. At first I considered simply showcasing some Venn diagrams or random insights and fun facts gleaned from its raw data but, alas, it turns out that data is only interesting if it has more than one dimension. Prose is not data. Discogs isn’t exactly “Big Data” either. Privacy was another aspect worth diving into. But at the very heart of this contentious data there was a message I could easily convey: Where does it come from, and why is much of it garbage? Continue reading →
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Tagged AI, credits, data capture, data mining, database, discogs, geek porn, guidelines, madness, media, metadata, music industry, norms, schema, standardisation
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