README.md

Metal Around The World

Creator: Yan-Jen Lo      Course: CMCS320 (Data Science)

Project Links

Menu	Featured Python Libraries	Links / References
Part I: Web Scrapping	Pandas BeautifulSoup Requests Asyncio (Asynchronous I/O) Aiohttp (HTTP Client/Server for Asyncio) JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Comma Separated Values (CSV) Re (Regular Expressions)	Encyclopedia Metallum (The Metal Archives) Wikipedia World Population Countries By Continent Asyncio / Aiohttp Example GitHub: jonchar's Metal Archives Scraper
Part II: Analysis With World Population	NumPy Matplotlib Seaborn	World GeoJSON Interactive Maps With Folium Top 10 Metal Countries
Part III: Sub-Genre Analysis	Matplotlib Seaborn Folium	Map of Metal Brief History of Metal (MIT)

Introduction

Inspiration

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
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.

Why Encyclopedia Metallum?

Benefits	Drawbacks
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.

Project Goal

QUESTIONS:

1. 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?
 
2. Which part of the world is the most metal?
   • Most metal bands in proportion to population (by country)
    
3. How much has the metal music scene grown?
   • Overall
   • By Continent
    
4. 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?