Analysis of Radiohead’s Music: Factors Affecting Dancability

Overview

This paper investigates the factors influencing the danceability of Radiohead's tracks by analyzing tempo, and valence. Our findings indicate that tempo shows no statistically significant correlation with danceability, suggesting it does not play a major role in determining the danceable quality of the songs. Valence exhibits a weak positive correlation with danceability, indicating a modest association where higher valence tracks tend to be slightly more danceable.

File Structure

The repo is structured as:

• data/raw_data contains the raw data as obtained from Spotify API.
• data/analysis_data contains the cleaned dataset that was constructed.
• other contains LLM chat interactions
• paper contains the files used to generate the paper, including the Quarto document and reference bibliography file, as well as the PDF of the paper.
• scripts contains the R scripts used to download and clean data.

Statement on LLM usage

Aspects of the code including the data analysis and data cleaning are written with the help of LLM, ChatGPT4.0. Specific usage is included in the usage text document.