Linguistic Signals of Album Quality: A Predictive Analysis of Pitchfork Review Scores Using Quanteda

In this post we will return to the Pitchfork music review data, parts of which...

2019, Jan 10   —  18 minute read

Using Recurrent Neural Nets to Generate Band Names

In this post we will return to the Pitchfork music data and use recurrent neural...

2018, Nov 28   —  8 minute read

Multilevel Modeling Solves the Multiple Comparison Problem: An Example with R

Multiple comparisons of group-level means is a tricky problem in statistical inference. A standard practice...

2018, Oct 31   —  15 minute read

Differences in Word Use Across Music Genres in Pitchfork Album Reviews

In this post we will return to the data on Pitchfork music reviews, parts of...

2018, Sep 22   —  9 minute read

Sentiment Use Across the Course of Pitchfork Music Reviews: A Tidy Text Analysis with R

In this post, we’ll return to the Kaggle data containing information on Pitchfork music reviews....

2018, Jun 06   —  13 minute read

Nas vs. DOOM: A Model-Based Text Analysis with Python

In this post, we’ll return to analyzing rap lyrics using statistical and data analytic tools...

2018, Apr 22   —  13 minute read

Editing ID3 Tags in Python Part 2: NPR Presents The Austin 100

I was excited to get the chance to re-use the code from the previous post...

2018, Mar 14   —  2 minute read

Editing ID3 Tags (mp3 Meta-Data) in Python

In this post, I’d like to do something a little bit different. Typically, on this...

2018, Feb 12   —  8 minute read