BigDataFr recommends: <a title="@radar.oreilly.com - Predicting a Billboard Music Hit with Shazam Data" href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/05/data-highlights-oreilly-strata-hadoop-world-london-2015.html" target="_blank">Predicting a Billboard Music Hit with Shazam Data
‘Shazam already knows the next big hit
“With relative accuracy, we can predict 33 days out what song will go to No. 1 on the Billboard charts in the U.S.,” says Cait O’Riordan, VP of product for music and platforms at Shazam. O’Riordan walks through the data points and trendlines — including the “shape of a pop song” — that give Shazam hints about hits. »‘
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Sources: Mac Slocum radar.oreilly.com, http://strataconf.com