Inside Pandora: Practical Application of Big Data in Music

Inside Pandora: Practical Application of Big Data in Music: Pandora internet radio is best known for the Music Genome Project; the most unique and richly labeled music catalog of 1.5 million+ tracks. While this content-based approach to music recommendation is extremely effective and still used today as the foundation to the leading online radio service, Pandora has also collected more than a decade of contextual listener feedback in the form of more than 50 billion thumbs from 80M+ monthly active users who have created more than 7 billion stations. This session will look at how the interdisciplinary team at Pandora goes about making sense of these massive data sets to successfully make large scale music recommendations to the masses.