#  Pop music is getting louder, possibly more boring (statistically speaking) 

 





September 17, 2012

 

 

The [NYT](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/opinion/sunday/the-computer-as-music-critic.html?_r=1) just alerted me to a [paper](http://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.5651v1.pdf) by Joan Serra and coauthors demonstrating what we can learn about popular music with a big data approach. I'll leave it to you to interpret the trends they identify (music is getting louder, also more similar), but it was interesting and gave me a lot of ideas for how I could borrow some of this technology for my own research.

Posted by [Richard Nielsen](http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/sss/archives/author/richard-nielsen-1/) at September 16, 2012 8:51 PM



 

 

 



 

 

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