This is the repository for analysing the networks of artists who appear in Spotify charts. Please read the following to gain a first overview of the GitHub repo.

Data preparation in R
API access for genre information
API access for popularity information

First analysis (general)
Penalized regression
ANOVA

Min-max transformation
Boxcox transformation
Export graphs and visualisations as imgs
Export graph objects for Gephi

• set up project infrastructure (GitHub repository + local machine)
• Data preparation
  • Data collection (Kaggle)
  • Data preprocessing
  • Transform network object
• Analysis
  • Exploratory data analysis
  • Hypothesis 1
    • Calculate centrality measures
    • Perform regression (dependent variable = streams; independent variables = centrality measures)
  • Hypothesis 2
    • Create genre subgraphs
    • Calculate centrality measures
    • Perform ANOVA on avg number of streams between different genres + whole network
• Write report