WDS: Spotify/Billboard Hot 100 Launchpad
This launchpad integrates Billboard Hot 100 chart histories (1958–2021) with Spotify’s audio analysis parameters (such as energy, tempo, and danceability). It provides a high-interest dataset for students to examine how popular music has changed over time.
Intended Audience & Use Case: Designed for middle and high school math, statistics, and humanities teachers. It serves as an engaging entry-point for students learning to filter, plot, and interpret correlations and trends using the CODAP software.
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Associated Publications The Billboard Hot 100 Launchpad is featured in: Wilkerson, M. H., Erickson, T., Lee, H. S., & Finzer, W. (2026). How to be “Choosy”: Wrangling big datasets for the classroom. Teaching Statistics, 48(1), 76–96. https://doi.org/10.1111/test.70022