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You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music Highlight

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because we obsessively scraped every page of the web that was conceivably about music, we knew more about those words than anybody else. We disassembled every page we scraped to figure out what bands or artists it was talking about, and what it was saying about them, and put this all in a giant database. We not only knew what were the most common words people used to describe any given band, but we knew how commonly each of those words were used for all bands, so we could tell how important each word was for each band.

— Glenn McDonald

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