What I Learned from Analyzing Spotify Data: A Hands-on Journey Through Statistics, Causality, and Real-World Noise
I started this project with a simple question:What makes a song a hit on Spotify?By the end, I had unintentionally walked through key lessons in descriptive analysis, confounding, matching, causal inference, and bootstrapping. This is what I learned, not just about the data, but about the mindset statistical analysis requires in the real world. Descriptive …