A dive into the “inferences” that Spotify has made about me (and is probably telling advertisers).
As mentioned during my intial data cleaning, here is the description that Spotify’s provides about this list of “inferences” it has made about me:
We draw certain inferences about your interests and preferences based on your usage of the Spotify service and using data obtained from our advertisers and other advertising partners. This includes a list of market segments with which you are currently associated. Depending on your settings, this data may be used to serve interest-based advertising to you within the Spotify service.
Only when looking through my settings on the Spotify website to download the data they have collected about me did I realize that I had linked my Facebook account 🤦🏻.
Spotify reports making 661 inferences about me.
# A tibble: 6 x 1
inference
<chr>
1 1P_Custom_Auto_BMW
2 1P_Custom_Discovery_Streamers
3 1P_Custom_Passionate_Curators
4 1P_Custom_Soothing_Sounds
5 1P_Custom_T-Mobile_Switchers
6 1P_Custom_iPhone_11_Users
Most of the bottom 25 are labeled TEST
. I do not know what this means, but will need to take the variance into account as I try to extract the key words and phrases.
# A tibble: 25 x 1
inference
<chr>
1 PMR TEST - 3P_Custom_Current Snuggle Buyers_04May2020_US
2 PMR TEST - 3P_Custom_Office Supplies Buyers_16April2020_US
3 PVHannahS2_US_AmazonPrimeVideo_Q2Q32020_Exposed
4 Recaptcha_scores_filtered
5 TEST_CUSTOM_FacialCleaning_US
6 [TEST] 3P_Custom_BeerLovers_US
7 [TEST] 3P_Custom_Parents of College Students_US
8 [TEST] 3P_Skin Care Buyers_US
9 [Test] - 3P_ TV_Sports TV Enthusiasts_US
10 [Test] - 3P_Custom_HHI $80K+_06Jan2020_CA
# … with 15 more rows
Spotify believes I am both a registered Republican and registered Democrat and hold strong right and left political views.
[1] "3P_Custom_NBC Viewers _US"
[2] "3P_Custom__CNN_US"
[3] "3P_Custom__MSNBC Viewers_US"
[4] "3P_Custom__MSNBC_ Political News Viewers_US"
[5] "3P_Politics - Active in Politics_US"
[6] "3P_Politics - Any Democrat_US"
[7] "3P_Politics - Any Left_US"
[8] "3P_Politics - Any Republican_US"
[9] "3P_Politics - Any Right_US"
[10] "3P_Politics - Interested in Politics_US"
[11] "3P_Politics - Political Donor Any_US"
[12] "3P_Politics - Registered Democrat_US"
[13] "3P_Politics - Registered Republican_US"
[14] "3P_Politics - Registered Voters_US"
[15] "3P_Politics - Strong Left_US"
[16] "3P_Politics - Strong Right_US"
[17] "[Test] - 3P_Custom__CNN_US"
[18] "[Test] - 3P_Custom__MSNBC Viewers_US"
# A tibble: 1 x 1
inference
<chr>
1 3p_Anime_Manga_Enthusiast_Es
# A tibble: 12 x 1
inference
<chr>
1 3P_Couple without Kids_DE
2 3P_Custom_Expectant Parents_US
3 3P_Custom_Parents of Boys 6-11_US
4 3P_Custom_Parents of Kids 5-13_28Apr2020_US
5 3P_Custom_Parents of Toddlers_30Nov2020_US
6 3P_Custom_Parents with Children Age 6-17_15March2020_US
7 3P_Custom_Parents with Children Ages 9-18_23Nov2020_US
8 3P_Custom_Parents with Kids 6-12_US
9 3P_Custom_Parents_12Nov2020_CA
10 3P_Family/Children's Shoppers_US
11 3P_Parents_US
12 [TEST] 3P_Custom_Parents of College Students_US
Clean inferences.
Analyses:
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