We will discuss and analyze hip-hop, America's most popular genre of music as of last year in terms of amount consumed, through data. There are many hip-hop related datasets available for exploration. Exciting data science techniques are being applied to understand interesting properties of hip-hop through this data. Data science is one of the most influential fields of study right now, and we will be discussing fundamental techniques in data science while looking at interesting data!

We will discuss and analyze hip-hop, America's most popular genre of music as of last year in terms of amount consumed, through data. There are many hip-hop related datasets available, including one collected by the teacher of this class! Exciting data science techniques are being applied to understand interesting properties of hip-hop through this data. For instance, in a very recent study done at Cornell, novel network-analysis techniques were applied to hip-hop collaboration data that aided in predicting future collaborations between hip-hop artists. Data science is one of the hottest fields right now, and we will be discussing fundamental techniques in data science while looking at interesting data!