Spotify Wrapped Tag

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InterWorks Wrapped 2023

Danny Steinmetz

December 15, 2023

It’s the most wonderful time of the year again. That’s right: Spotify Wrapped is finally here. The magical time where friends surprise you with the weird new genre or artist they’ve been into, or when you start doing math to determine if it’s even possible...

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A New Look at Spotify Data Using Dataiku, Tableau and Python

Danny Steinmetz

February 28, 2023

I’ve always loved Spotify’s year-in-review analysis. But, as a data nerd, I yearn for the underlying data – the stories I know are there but don’t have access to. While I know Spotify makes a lot of this data accessible through it’s API, I have...

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The Sound of InterWorks: Spotify Wrapped 2020

Danny Steinmetz

January 21, 2021

What a year. A year with so much potential for puns (think: hindsight is 2020, 2020 vision … if only) turned out to be quite different. Rather than sounding like a good joke, many people will forever react to hearing “2020” the same way characters...

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Using Viz Animations for Interactive Data Storytelling in Tableau

Keith Dykstra

April 9, 2020

In my previous article, I explained how Kendra Allenspach and I used parameter actions to build an interactive story about InterWorks’ Spotify listening preferences. The counter technique I described is the underlying foundation of the story, but we also used Tableau’s new Viz Animations feature...

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Using Parameter Actions for Interactive Data Storytelling in Tableau

Keith Dykstra

April 6, 2020

My colleague Kendra Allenspach and I recently put together a visual story about InterWorks’ musical preferences using Spotify Wrapped data (we’ve embedded the final product at the end of this article if you want to skip straight to the fun stuff). The project took us...

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Collaborating in Tableau: Neat Lessons Learned from Messy Projects, Part 2

Kendra Allenspach and Keith Dykstra

April 2, 2020

While relying on each other is extra crucial in these strange times, sometimes it can still be tricky to figure out what that really looks like. Especially in the workplace. This blog is the second part of the story of how my colleague Keith and...

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Collaborating in Tableau: Neat Lessons Learned from Messy Projects, Part 1

Kendra Allenspach and Keith Dykstra

March 27, 2020

Have you experienced this? You have a fun idea for a dashboard. Just a little side project for your Tableau Public profile. You start out enthusiastically, full of excitement about the possibilities. But then you find yourself on version three, version four … version eleven...