Coldplay Analysis

Overview

This analysis explores trends in Coldplay's discography using Spotify audio features, focusing on the relationships between energy and tempo, danceability over time, and valence versus speechiness. Key findings show a positive correlation between energy and tempo, stable danceability across years, and a broad emotional range (valence) with minimal use of spoken-word elements (speechiness).

File Structure

The repo is structured as:

• data/analysis_data contains the imported dataset.
• other contains sketches.
• paper contains the files used to generate the paper, including the Quarto document and reference bibliography file, as well as the PDF of the paper.
• scripts contains the R scripts used to simulate and download data

Statement on LLM usage

No LLMs were used for any aspect of this work.