Programmatically determine the relative "popularities" of a list of items (books, songs, movies, etc
- by Horace Loeb
Given a list of (say) songs, what's the best way to determine their relative "popularity"?
My first thought is to use Google Trends. This list of songs:
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Empire State of Mind
California Gurls
produces the following Google Trends report: (to find out what's popular now, I restricted the report to the last 30 days)
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