Taylor Swift Data

This repo contains the data that I collected to do the analysis for this blog post: http://adashofdata.com/2023/03/01/a-data-scientist-breaks-down-all-10-taylor-swift-albums-the-extended-version/

You can also see the video summary of my analysis on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZNFms8sUbTw

For fun, you can also check out a few of the Reddit threads here, here and here.

The data sets contain details about her songs from her first 10 studio albums (up through Midnights). I gathered the data through the Genius API (lyrics) and Spotify API (song metadata).

For the non-technical people

This main folder contains:

• Taylor_Swift_Genius_Data.xlsx: Spreadsheet with lyrics data
• Taylor_Swift_Set_List_Data.xlsx: Spreadsheet with set lists from her six tours discussed on this Reddit thread
• Taylor_Swift_Spotify_Data.xlsx: Spreadsheet with song metadata
• Taylor_Swift_Words_Data.xlsx: Spreadhseet with lyrics data broken down into words

To access the data, you can click on any Taylor_Swift_Type_Data.xlsx spreadsheet and then click the Download button at the top right.

For the technical people

The Taylor_Swift_Genius folder contains:

• Python code to extract the lyrics of Taylor Swift's songs from the Genius API
• .csv file of the lyrics of Taylor Swift's songs
• 10 folders containing the song lyrics for each album as .txt files

The Taylor_Swift_Spotify folder contains:

• Python code to extract the metadata of Taylor Swift's songs from the Spotify API
• .csv file of the metadata of Taylor Swift's songs (danceability, key, etc.)

The Taylor_Swift_Words folder contains:

• Python code to break down her lyrics into words
• .csv file of the words in Taylor Swift's songs