classification - Kaylin Pavlik

Understanding + classifying genres using Spotify audio features

Kaylin Pavlik on R, classification, random forest, xgboost, decision tree, pca, corrplot, spotifyr | 20 Dec 2019

Musical genre is far from black and white - there are no hard and fast rules for classifying a given track or artist as “hard rock” vs. “folk rock,” but rather the listener knows it when they hear it. Is it possible to classify songs into broad genres?…

Tidy Text Mining Beer Reviews

Kaylin Pavlik on R, tidytext, clustering, classification, correlation, tfidf, knn, dataviz | 23 Jan 2018

Craft beer is a huge market. Beer reviews from fellow beer drinkers help customers navigate it. From 2013 to 2016, the craft beer industry nearly doubled in value from $14.3 [https://www.brewersassociation.org/press-releases/2013-craft-beer-data-infographic/] to $23.5 billion [https://www.brewersassociation.org/statistics/national-beer-sales-production-data/] . The number of…