battle of the bay - hella hack 2013
DESCRIPTION
Which city has better taste in music, Oakland, or San Francisco? This hack, built in 24 hours at Hella Hack Oakland, uses the Twitter API and Gracenote metadata to analyze the genres and moods of music being shared on different music services (Pandora, Rdio, Soundtracking, Spotify), and creates an Rdio playlist of the songs being Tweeted.TRANSCRIPT
Quim Llimona @lemonzi
Ching-‐Wei Chen @cweichen
2013
“Music is Local”
A li:le friendly cross-‐bay challenge:
Which city has be,er taste in music, Oakland or San Francisco?
Show me the data!
We used the Twi:er API, filtered by geolocaIon,
and found what songs were being shared on:
Parsing Tweets
Parsing Tweets
Genre and Mood
We look up each track’s Genre and Mood in the Gracenote database
Genre and Mood
We look up each track’s Genre and Mood in the Gracenote database
h:p://lemonzi.github.io/Ba:leOfTheBay
h:p://lemonzi.github.io/Ba:leOfTheBay
h:p://lemonzi.github.io/Ba:leOfTheBay
Choose a mood, genre, or service
h:p://lemonzi.github.io/Ba:leOfTheBay
% of Tweets from SF for that genre, mood or
service
h:p://lemonzi.github.io/Ba:leOfTheBay
% of Tweets from Oakland for that genre,
mood or service
h:p://lemonzi.github.io/Ba:leOfTheBay
Tweet stream
h:p://lemonzi.github.io/Ba:leOfTheBay
Playback with
Quim Llimona @lemonzi
Ching-‐Wei Chen @cweichen
2013