How Spotify Uses Big Data and AI to Pick Your Next Song NYCDA Blog

Yesterday I attended Spotify's Big Data & Machine Learning panel at Galvanize in NYC. Going in I had a few select questions, mainly why my #1 song on my 2016 Year in Review was "Venus" by Lady Gaga, despite all the times I set it to Private Mode for my ritualistic guilty pleasure listening sessions. More importantly than that, I came to learn how big data and machine learning are used by the engineers over at Spotify. With over 100M registered users worldwide, Spotify has many unique data and AI challenges. There's 25 billion data points within Spotify's database, 100 million music preferences to catalog and cater to, over 30M songs, and 2 billion playlists across 60 countries.