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The Echo Nest

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2012: Music

Stories about The Echo Nest

Why “This Is My Jam” Stopped Overthinking Music Discovery

Can a service that only showcases one song at a time fix the music discovery problem?

Why “This Is My Jam” Stopped Overthinking Music Discovery

It’s Official: Music Gets Louder Every Year

It’s Official: Music Gets Louder Every Year

Can Computers Write Music That Has A Soul?

Computer algorithms are at the cutting edge of modern classical music composition and can even write ‘new’ works by Bach and Mozart. Will such music ever be considered authentically human?

Can Computers Write Music That Has A Soul?

The Echo Nest Makes Pandora Look Like a Transistor Radio

More cowbell! Everyone from Christopher Walken enthusiasts to major record labels to Columbia University is excited about The Echo Nest. The many uses, frivolous and non-, of Echo Nest’s massive 30-million-song dataset.

The Echo Nest Makes Pandora Look Like a Transistor Radio

Impact

These Nobel Prize-winning economists explain why direct cash transfers are so vital to fighting poverty

Why Katie Porter says childcare and family policies are not (just) about women

Labor leader Sara Nelson says workers must fight together—across industries

News

The gender gap in workplace burnout is getting wider

National Inventors Hall of Fame will induct two Black women for the first time in history

Instagram tries to filter out a hurricane of negative press with a feel-good brand campaign

Co.Design

Ferrari to partner with Jony Ive’s new design firm

For a glimpse at the future of sustainable architecture, look to China

This fashion label’s latest product is not a dress or a coat. It’s a plot of land

Work Life

This is how private companies can work with the government to support parents

Why leaders aren’t powerful without this 1 thing

This is what’s really behind the Great Resignation