Sputnik Music is my go to resource for keeping a pulse on new music, storing my ratings for albums, and finding new bands to listen to. I have found that their website does not do a good job of showing top level data. I am hoping to scrape their entire website and use that information for some data science experiments I want to run.
- For example on my profile I have an 'objectivity' score of 68%; is this based on comparisons to other users? Is this based on some formula they created years ago? What does 'objectivity' mean?
- Given a set of users who like a modern genre (ex: indie rock) what albums and genres from decades previous do they all seem to like? Does their taste in older music seem to differ from the group of users at large?
- When new albums first come out generally their rating is a couple points above what it eventually ends up at. For example an album like 'Science Fiction' that Brand New came out with in 2017 had a rating of around 4.3, but now sits at 4.1. Is it possible to estimate how much an album's rating will drop?
These are just a few of many questions I have regarding the data on Sputnik Music and as I dig into it further I'm sure I will discover more questions.
Example parse from a page:
Rating(4.5,Mastodon_2007,Some(2007-08-20))
Rating(4.0,Prometherion,Some(2007-08-12))
Rating(4.5,Racinette,Some(2007-08-12))
Rating(3.5,EvilFiek,Some(2007-08-09))
Rating(4.0,OpethFreak,Some(2007-08-08))
Rating(3.0,Goku,Some(2007-08-08))
Rating(5.0,dhowns,Some(2007-07-31))
Rating(4.5,teamsleep698,Some(2007-03-29))
Rating(5.0,entruce,Some(2006-04-04))
Rating(4.0,Thor,Some(2005-08-31))
Rating(4.0,BTBAM1390,None)
Rating(4.0,Mulciber,None)
Rating(4.5,Kye,None)
Rating(4.5,mexirocker666,None)
Rating(4.0,amcmillon,None)
Rating(3.5,HangEmHigh,None)