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f1g4 t1_iurgtae wrote

Reply to comment by beingsubmitted in [OC] Billboard's top 10 singles are getting progressively more negative (and less acoustic) over time by robert_ritz

Here I found A LOT more about the valence score: https://github.com/raffg/spotify_analysis so far it looks like a deep learning trained model and fine tuned. It seems to work pretty well.

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beingsubmitted t1_iurqo28 wrote

Interesting - seems it's mostly just trying to fit one experts idea of what valence means, so we'd have to ask that dude what features contribute to valence.

But... aside from the fact that it's relatively old and predates a lot of the better language models we have today, I think we can also conclude it's likely not looking at lyrical content by the inclusion of both Hey ya and Pumped Up Kicks at the top of the valence scores.

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