index.Rmd

---
title: "Personal Spotify Data Analysis"
description: |
  A website to show the results of analyzing the data Spotify has collected of me.
author:
  - first_name: "Joshua"
    last_name: "Cook"
    url: https://joshuacook.netlify.app
    orcid_id: 0000-0001-9815-6879
date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
output: distill::distill_article
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = FALSE)
```

## Introduction

Spotify allows users to request the information that Spotify has collected of them.
Out of curiosity, I have downloaded my data and have begun analyzing it.
This is still a work in progress, but everything I have done is available on this website.

## Some details

### Accessing your data

Spotify allows users to request the information that Spotify has collected of them.
It is available by accessing Spotify's web application on a Browser and navigating to "Profile"/"Acount"/"Privacy settings" and scrolling to the bottom.

![How to download your personal data from the Spotify website.](misc-assets/spotify-data-download-request.png)

### Building a website with R Markdown and Distill

All of the data processing and analysis presented here was conducted in R using the [R Markdown](https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/) format/system/way-of-life and then turned into a website using the  ['Distill'](https://rstudio.github.io/distill/) package.