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Cool. And I noticed that a surprisingly high number of songs are in Spanish. So I'll venture to hypothesize that this project will identify a correlation between musical taste and preference for how loud it is played, rather than accurately capturing the "musical taste of the neighborhood". Any thoughts on that? Have you tested how loud a song needs to be played in order to be picked up?

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Malmquist bias[0] for neighborhood music!

It would be hard to find that correlation because you can’t get a base rate. I don’t think you can measure the distance, so you don’t know if it’s loud or close. Maybe there’s no correlation independent of the music taste of the neighborhood.

Lots of Spanish doesn’t surprise me. It’s a neighborhood that’s still largely Mexican, and Latin Pop is really big in the US in general.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malmquist_bias

Malmsteen bias?

For those who think anything with more than 2 protons must necessarily be metal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo3pfnldlD0

I used to go build houses in Tijuana with a charity, and invariably, some neighbor would see us building, and come out with some speakers to absolutely blast mariachi. Always followed up by a wave or a thumbs up, implicit that an objective net improvement had just been deployed.

When coming from building with no music at all, I’m nearly forced to agree.

The Mission has a lot of Latin American restaurants, bars and nightclubs that attract a Spanish-speaking clientele (or people who want to meet Spanish speakers) from outside the neighborhood. And the neighborhood itself is around a third Spanish-speaking.

I think there’s definitely a bias towards songs that you’re going to blast from your car with the windows down. As someone decades away from that stage of life, it would be unlikely that anything that I listen to would show up in the lists (and, in fact, skimming over a couple days’ songs, there were only three songs I recognized, although a few more artists).

I don't know what a "surprisingly high" number is - but the mission is about 1/3 Spanish speaking as far as I can tell[1].

[1] It's hard actually, but this language diversity data(https://www.sf.gov/data/san-francisco-language-diversity-dat...) says there are ~20k speakers and this district population breakdown (https://www.sfgov.org/ccsfgsa/current-san-francisco-supervis...) says there are ~67k residents

This is looking about 90% Spanish songs and 10% reggae-fusion.

I'm pretty amused at whoever decided to play KDA at 9:30 last night though.

That's funny because I recognized Annika Wells and had to look up the song without knowing who K/DA was.

1/3 of a century of progress in animation technique and musical style?

(1985) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96mZc82fYGc

(2018) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOxkGD8qRB4

[what if, instead of having eighteenth century style parliament buildings with a bunch of old guys sitting at desks and speaking from time to time, we had political factions settle their disputes in-game on a battle royale level?]

Spanish language pop music is also just extremely mainstream and popular in the United States, and has been for decades.

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