Tag archive: Data
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...
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...
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...
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....
Apr 2, 2024
Data Platform Explained Part I
As engineers working at Spotify, we frequently find ourselves explaining our robust data platform to fellow...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...