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Kaggle's Metal by Nation and Genre Data
While looking around for a data set to use, I stumbled upon this Kaggle entry on metal bands. Being a metal head since middle school, this peaked my interest like no other data set I've seen so far. Download the dataset with the link below (you need to creat a free account to download from Kaggle).
| Link | Contents |
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| Kaggle | metal_bands_2017.csv |
| world_population_1960_2015.csv |
The dataset had only 5000 metal bands and the world population data didn't go up to 2018. Also if you check out this kaggle notebook, someone has already analyzed the data. I wanted to see for myself if the analysis for this dataset still holds for the Encyclopedia Metallum data which is 24x larger.
| Benefits | Drawbacks |
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| Large Database | Subjective Band Entry Submissions Acceptance* |
| Band Entry Submissions Heavily Monitored | Information Error (Rare) |
| Users Worldwide Contribute Entries | No Ready-Made Data / RESTful API** |
*What bands that are considered metal is determined by administrators, so some that are considered metal elsewhere aren't listed in the database.
**there is one, but it was incomplete and currently down right now.
- Which genre type seems to dominate the metal playing field?
- For the metal genre in general
- For each continent
- Are most genres mixed or pure?
- Which part of the world is the most metal?
- Most metal bands in proportion to population (by country)
- How much has the metal music scene grown?
- Overall
- By Continent
- What is the future of the metal genre?
- Are the number of new bands forming increasing?
- Is the number of currently active bands increasing, decreasing, or plateauing?
- On average, how long do bands stay together?