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Project Aim

This project seeks to prove that there are differences between the lyrics of different genres and we can use Data Science to show this.

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Scraping Lyrics from Musixmatch.com

We will scrape lyrics from Musixmatch.com, a free website that hosts a tonne of accurate lyric content

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Encoding lyrics using Google's Universal Sentence Encoder

We will represent lyrics using high dimensional vectors from Google’s Universal Sentence Encoder.

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Reducing Dimensionality using PCA

We will apply Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to reduce these high dimensional representations

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Visualising in Plotly

We will use Plotly and build a combination of simple plots and more sophisticated 2d and 3d scatter plots to see where there are similarities and differences in lyrics

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Medium

The full article was originally a featured story on Medium

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