High Impact Practices Student Showcase Spring 2025

What makes a song likeable?
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Course Code
STA
Course Number
4164
Faculty/Instructor
Professor Nathaniel Simone
Faculty/Instructor Email
nathaniel.simone@ucf.edu
Abstract, Summary, or Creative Statement
The purpose of this project was to demonstrate the skills I learned in my research intensive course, Statistical Methods III. The goal of this project was to find out what aspects of a song can be used to predict the number of streams, and which aspects are most significant. To do this I used data from the Spotify API, and used R to clean and transform the data, as well as build a model. Through this course and project I learned the full process of statistical model building, how to interpret output from R, and how to communicate my findings to others in an understandable way.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Keywords
Music; Songs; Spotify; Statistics
Recommended Citation
Longmire, Emily J., "What makes a song likeable?" (2025). High Impact Practices Student Showcase Spring 2025. 6.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/hip-2025spring/6
