Predicting Your Playlist

According to the article, Spotify was launched around ___ years ago.

• 10

• 11

• 12

Spotify typically releases new music on...

• Mondays

• the first Monday of the month

• every day

Spotify's Discover Weekly playlist uses probability, computer science, and...

• data analysis

• outputs

• results

A ______ is a set of rules that a computer follows to solve a problem.

• algorithm

• results

• computer science

Spotify's playlist creator algorithm looks at...

• songs that appear together on user-created playlists

• rankings of current music

• songs that everyone likes

The playlist creator algorithm checks

• which songs a person has already listened to

• what most users are listening to

• which songs a person has never listented to

The playlist creator algorithm has to check____ playlists.

• 1 billion

• 1.5 billion

• 2 billion

Spotify's playlist creator algorithm is based on...

• how songs are related to each other

• users' stated preferences

• top-rated songs