Spotify surprises us every December with their cool end-of-the-year specials. Nevertheless, this year some of the reports smelled fishy. I decided to investigate.
by Alex Ingberg
Pulling data from my Spotify and Last.fm accounts using their APIs, I did some time series analysis to check which were my real stats and see if what Spotify told me in my Spotify Wrapped end-of-year summary was correct.
Spoiler alert: it wasn't.
To check the analysis, go here.
To see the Medium article published in Towards Data Science, go here
Some cool samples from the visualizations:
This whole project has been created using Python 3 and Jupyter Notebook
I created the databases with pandas, Spotipy (an amazing Python wrapper for the Web Spotify API), and pylast (another amazing python wrapper, this time for Last.fm API).
To work on the analysis the tools I used were pandas, Seaborn and matplotlib.