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Comment by input_sh

4 days ago

I can't think of many situations where that would be particularly valuable, considering it favours recent plays and the cutoff date is already almost half a year old.

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cm2012  4 days ago

Helps train an algorithm to figure out which music is popular, as a training signal

skrtskrt  4 days ago

If that's all the issues there are with the dataset, it is probably far and away the best dataset any researcher has ever used.

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