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Category: Music

[72] Metacritic Has A (File-Drawer) Problem

Posted on July 2, 2018December 21, 2018 by Joe Simmons

Metacritic.com scores and aggregates critics’ reviews of movies, music, and video games. The website provides a summary assessment of the critics’ evaluations, using a scale ranging from 0 to 100. Higher numbers mean that critics were more favorable. In theory, this website is pretty awesome, seemingly leveraging the wisdom-of-crowds to give consumers the most reliable…

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[32] Spotify Has Trouble With A Marketing Research Exam

Posted on January 12, 2015January 30, 2020 by Leif Nelson

This is really just a post-script to Colada [2], where I described a final exam question I gave in my MBA marketing research class. Students got a year’s worth of iTunes listening data for one person –me– and were asked: “What songs would this person put on his end-of-year Top 40?” I compared that list…

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[2] Using Personal Listening Habits to Identify Personal Music Preferences

Posted on September 26, 2013March 20, 2016 by Leif Nelson

Not everything at Data Colada is as serious as fraudulent data. This post is way less serious than that. This post is about music and teaching. As part of their final exam, my students analyze a data set. For a few years that data set has been a collection of my personal listening data from…

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