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A video map of the hottest songs in the US

September 21, 2012
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A video map of the hottest songs in the US

Today's guest post comes from Revolution Analytics data scientist Luba Gloukhov — ed. As a big fan of R’s ever-expanding geospatial plotting capabilities, I jumped at the chance create a map using The Million Song Dataset (MSD). For each of the 10,000 songs in the million song subset containing non-missing latitudes & longitudes and non-zero artists familiarity scores, I...

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