Alice Zhao

Author: Alice Zhao

  • A Data Scientist Breaks Down All 10 Taylor Swift Albums

    Taylor Swift’s music has pretty much been the soundtrack of my life. When she was waiting for her Romeo in Love Story, so was I. When she was ignoring the haters in Shake It Off, so was I. And when she was lying awake in the middle of the night in Anti-Hero, so was I.…

  • A Data Scientist Breaks Down All 10 Taylor Swift Albums (The Extended Version)

    I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling 22 Taylor Swift data visualizations. This is the Extended Version post. If you want to read just the highlights: If you want to watch me talk about this post: Table of Contents Popularity 1. Billboard Hits 2. Demand for The Eras Tour 3. Audience Growth Sound 4.…

  • Motherhood in Charts & Graphs

    Being a mom is exhausting, rewarding and life-changing. Here’s my take on motherhood, in the form of data visualizations.

  • How Text Messages Change After Having A Baby

    A few years ago, I wrote a blog post called “How Text Messages Change From Dating to Marriage”, where I compared my text messages with my husband before and after we got married. Several people suggested that I write a follow up post after we had kids. Well, we had our first baby. We can’t…

  • The Data Behind ‘The Bachelor’ & ‘The Bachelorette’

    The year is 2002. I’m sitting in front of a TV along with a group of girls excited to watch a new reality TV show that’s come on air. There are twenty-some beautiful women all trying to win the love of a successful Harvard grad (who happened to be both homecoming king and valedictorian of his high school…

  • How Christmas Songs Have Evolved Over Time

    ‘Tis the season of giving and eating and of course… Christmas songs! When I stumbled upon the ASCAP’s list of the Top 30 Holidays Songs of the Century, I knew I had found my data set for this month’s blog post. It’s pretty awesome when blasting Christmas music = doing research for a blog. At…

  • Today’s Top Female Pop Artists (In Charts)

    A couple weeks ago, I read an article on Billboard about how female artists have been ruling the charts. I took a moment to think about this phenomenon (as I paused Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass” on my phone) and realized that I really had been listening to a lot of female artists lately. It seemed like…

  • How Text Messages Change from Dating to Marriage

    Way back in October 2008, my now husband and I went on our first date. On our one year anniversary, his gift to me was a Word doc of all of our text messages since our first date (what he likes to refer to as #thegiftofdata). This was especially high tech back in the day (given…