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5 Essential Lessons for Junior Data Scientists I learned at Spotify (Part 1)

Congratulations and welcome to the adventure! You’re a Data Scientist in the making and your journey is only getting started! You’ve graduated from college and now you’re diving into a world of accomplished people who are changing the game. Sure, you may not be one of them (yet!...

Boosting Model Accuracy: Techniques I Learned During My Machine Learning Thesis at Spotify (+Code…

My goal was to understand what made users satisfied with their music experience. To do so, I built a LightGBM classifier whose output was a binary response: y = 1 → the user is seemingly satisfied y = 0 → not so much Predicting human satisfaction is a challenge because humans are by d...

Boosting Model Accuracy Techniques I Learned During My Machine Learning Thesis at Spotify (+Code…

In 2021, I spent 8 months building a predictive model to measure user satisfaction as part of my Thesis at Spotify. Image by Author My goal was to understand what made users satisfied with their music experience. To do so, I built a LightGBM classifier whose output was a binary respo...

5 Essential Lessons for Junior Data Scientists I Learned at Spotify (Part 2)

So previously, we discussed : The importance of sharing your work regularly with stakeholders, even if it’s not finished yet Seeking feedback regularly to ensure you’re on the right track Doing this will help you build trust with ...

Why Spotify Struggles to Make Money from Music Streaming

Spotify is the world’s most popular music streaming service, outperforming competitors like Apple Music and YouTube Music, with its 220 million premium subscribers and over 400 million monthly active users. It offers access to over 70 million songs, podcasts, and other audio content from va...

Feature Importance Analysis with SHAP I Learned at Spotify (with the Help of the Avengers)

Two years ago, I conducted a fascinating research project at Spotify as part of my Master’s Thesis. I learned several useful ML techniques, which I believe any Data Scientist should have in their toolkit. And today, I’m here to walk you through one of them. During that time, I spent 6...

Feature Importance Analysis with SHAP I Learned at Spotify (with the Help of the Avengers)

This article is one of a two-part piece documenting my learnings from my Machine Learning Thesis at Spotify. Be sure to also check out the second article on how I succeeded in significantly optimizing my model for this research. Boosting Model Accuracy: Techniques I Learned During My Machine Lear...

Feature Importance Analysis with SHAP I Learned at Spotify (with the Help of the Avengers

Two years ago, I conducted a fascinating research project at Spotify as part of my Master’s Thesis. I learned several useful ML techniques, which I believe any Data Scientist should have in their toolkit. And today, I’m here to walk you through one of them. During that time, I spent 6...