Music, Data & Platform Equity

Do you care about who gets heard in the streaming era and why? This project investigates how music metadata infrastructures shape cultural visibility on a massive scale, cross-referencing Spotify's 256-million-track catalog with MusicBrainz, the world's largest open music database, to map whose music gets cataloged and whose disappears.

You'll work alongside faculty to turn a large-scale dataset into a peer-reviewed journal article destined for Big Data & Society. Your contributions will include cleaning and validating linked data, building publication-quality figures in Python (matplotlib, seaborn, plotly), and supporting exploratory analysis of genre and geographic coverage gaps.