Tag archive: Data

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Sep 5, 2024

Are You a Dalia? How We Created Data Science Personas for Spotify’s Analytics Platform

On Spotify’s Analytics Platform, we’re dedicated to building products that empower data practitioners to...
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Aug 28, 2024

Unlocking Insights with High-Quality Dashboards at Scale

We have a lot of dashboards at Spotify. Our Insight teams and analysts from across the company are constantly...
DataData ScienceDesignPlatform
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May 28, 2024

Data Platform Explained Part II 

Check out , where we started sharing the journey of building a data platform, its building blocks, and the...
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May 15, 2024

Fixed-Power Designs: It’s Not IF You Peek, It’s WHAT You Peek at

TL;DR Sometimes we cannot estimate the required sample size needed to power an experiment before starting it....
DataData Science
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Apr 2, 2024

Data Platform Explained Part I

As engineers working at Spotify, we frequently find ourselves explaining our robust data platform to fellow...
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Jan 5, 2023

What’s a “Listening Personality”?

We did a couple of new things in Wrapped this year, and one of these is a thing called Your Listening...
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Mar 14, 2022

Why We Switched Our Data Orchestration Service

TL;DR Within Spotify, we run 20,000 batch data pipelines defined in 1,000+ repositories, owned by 300+ teams...
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Feb 16, 2022

Fred Wang: Senior Backend Engineer

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Spotify New York, Fred’s role on 2021 Wrapped involved serving data stories...
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Dec 17, 2021

The Audio Aura Story: Mystical to Mathematical

TL;DR For 2021 Wrapped, we were challenged to visually express a user’s based on how they listened this...
DataDesignProduct
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Oct 20, 2021

Changing the Wheels on a Moving Bus — Spotify’s Event Delivery Migration

At Spotify, data rules all. We log a variety of data, from listening history, to results of A/B testing, to...
DataData ScienceDeveloper ToolsInfrastructure
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Mar 1, 2021

2020 Unwrapped: The people behind the numbers

2020 Wrapped is a story of gratitude and resilience. And we’re grateful for the people and teams behind the...
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Feb 11, 2021

How Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020

In this post we’ll discuss how Spotify optimized and sped up elements from our largest Dataflow job, , for...
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