A simple song recommender
A song recommender that takes in data from Spotify API and displays various aspects in a dashboard. I wanted to explore how recommender systems work and use Python based tools for development since its the go to language for most Data Science projects.
- View the webapp here
Sulify is a dash app. The structure is as follows:
- app.py
|-- audio features
|-- recommenderThe audio features tab is meant to explore a single song's features. A user searches for a song and selects the specific song and artist from the dropdowm menu and gets to see a preview of the song, audio features displayed as numbers and displayed as graphs.
The recommender tab is meant to make requests to a model hosted as an API. The response is a list of ten songs that the user can preview and also view a graph of similarity scores.
| Tool/Library | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Dash | Dashboard design 😀 |
| Dash Bootstrap Components | Bring boostrap to dash apps |
| Plotly | Interactive Graphs 📊 |
| spotipy | Connect to Spotify |
| scikit-learn | Get similarity scores and graph 📈 |
User searches for a song and either gets a summary of all audio features or a recommendation of similar songs all displayed in a visually pleasing manner.
All this is made possible through Dash. Dash has two main parts:
- Layout - the HTML and DCC components that design the static webpage
- Callbacks - Inputs and Outputs that define how the webpage becomes dynamic
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A Spotify free account which will give you access to an API key
git clone https://github.com/Joy879/Sulify pip install -r requirements.txt
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.
I am looking forward to collecting more data to make the recommender model more accurate and faster. This project is my own way of exploring various strategies of implementing content-based recommender systems. The accuracy vs speed tradeoff is definitely an issue i'd like to dive deeper into even as I learn how to optimize the app to work with larger datasets. I would also like to allow a user to login to spotify from the app and be able to save the recommended songs into a playlist. If you have any ideas or suggestions or contributions feel free to reach out to me via mail 📧
I am a data science enthusiast and a software engineering graduate from ALX and I love working with Python especially because of it's vast pool of libraries for scientific computing