Listening Patterns
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Listening hours per day for a user
Music has inculcated itself into the daily routines of almost everyone these days. This section focuses on how much time people spend everyday listening to music (in hours).
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Preferred streaming services
There are a plethora of streaming services available nowadays for listening to music, some very popular names being Spotify, YouTube Music and Apple Music. This section shows which streaming platforms are used by the respondents.
Mental Health and Music
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Music is extremely resonating for a lot of people whether it is in the form of a coping mechanism, or as a distraction to zone out from reality. Let’s explore how music is related to anxiety and how the respondents reported the effects of music on their mental health.
Listening Hours vs Anxiety
Self-reported effects of music on mental health
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Another factor that is worth examining is the selection of genre by the respondent. We see whether fans of a particular music genre report a higher anxiety level.
Favorite Genres
K-Pop music vs Depression
About the Data & Conclusion
Data Visualization Assignment 3
Name: Nishita Padalia
Student number: s4072038
In this project, we took a dive into Music and Mental Health and explored how people’s music habits are connected their mental well-being. We look into several factors like the respondents number of listening hours per day, platform preferences, favorite genres, etc., and how these relate to self-reported anxiety, depression, etc.
Key insights
Most participants listen to music for 0-5 hours per day, with Spotify being the significantly popular platform.
The data is self-reported and suggests that music improves mental health, especially for frequent listeners.
Genres like EDM, Lo-Fi and Classical relate to a lower average anxiety. On the other hand, Metal and K-pop showed higher scores.
This concludes that for a majority of respondents music isn’t just entertainment, it is more of a coping mechanism or mind reliever for them.
The data was sourced from:
Catherine R. (2022). Music and Mental Health Survey Results (mxmh_survey_results.csv) [Dataset]. Kaggle. https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/catherinerasgaitis/mxmh-survey-results/data