science – Parerga und Paralipomena http://www.michelepasin.org/blog At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded - Wittgenstein Fri, 29 Apr 2016 22:43:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.11 13825966 SpotiSci: finding science concepts on Spotify http://www.michelepasin.org/blog/2016/04/29/spotisci-finding-science-concepts-on-spotify/ Fri, 29 Apr 2016 22:43:12 +0000 http://www.michelepasin.org/blog/?p=2776 Ever wondered how many musical albums focus on topics like the moon landing, artificial intelligence or DNA replication? Probably not for everyone’s taste, but if you give it a shot you’ll be surprised at the results.

When I ran into the excellent Spotipy library (a small yet nifty Python client for the Spotify Web API) I couldn’t wait to try it out with some fun project.

So that’s how the SpotiSci experiment came about; essentially a search tool that allows to query Nature.com‘s one million articles archives while at the same time browsing the vast selection of music available on Spotify.

Have a good listen. You may find the right soundtrack for your science.

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