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Alexandre Passant

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BigQuery for #MusicTech

A Google Developer video on BigQuery for #MusicTech

A few months ago, after my #MusicTech book was published, I’ve spend some hours with Felipe Hoffa, Developer Advocate at Google, talking about several musical… Continued reading A Google Developer video on BigQuery for #MusicTech

PUBLISHED ON Posted on December 4, 2015December 4, 2015in Categories Technology
Tags #MusicTech, BigQuery, Data Science, music discovery
Finding Things - Beautiful Code

Using Algolia’s Search-as-a-Service on Google AppEngine

YapMe went live on the AppStore a few weeks ago, and I though I’d share some insights on the engineering side of the product. While some might… Continued reading Using Algolia’s Search-as-a-Service on Google AppEngine

PUBLISHED ON Posted on November 3, 2015in Categories Technology
Tags algolia, api, data, Engineering, google appengine, search
Browsing my stadium pictures

Visually index your Instagram pictures, and find them in real-time!

Following my experiments around deep learning and automated media tagging (not only for fun in the music context, but also regarding YapMe that we’re launching… Continued reading Visually index your Instagram pictures, and find them in real-time!

PUBLISHED ON Posted on July 14, 2015July 14, 2015in Categories Technology
Tags algolia, clarifai, deep learning, image recognition, instagram, search-as-a-service, solr
AC/DC's TNT live

Tagging YouTube’s music videos with Clarifai deep learning

Following the posts in which I’ve used Clarifai’s deep leaning API to tag, classify and then automatically generate album covers, here’s a quick experiment to analyze… Continued reading Tagging YouTube’s music videos with Clarifai deep learning

PUBLISHED ON Posted on July 3, 2015July 3, 2015in Categories Music, Technology
Tags api, deep learning, image recognition, python, Youtube
#MusicTech: An e-book on data science, analytics, recommender systems and music discovery

#MusicTech: An e-book on data science, analytics, recommender systems, and music discovery

It’s been out for a few weeks, but I haven’t blogged about it, so here it is: My e-book #MusicTech is now available on leanpub.… Continued reading #MusicTech: An e-book on data science, analytics, recommender systems, and music discovery

PUBLISHED ON Posted on June 25, 2015June 25, 2015in Categories Music, Technology
Tags analytics, Data Science, leanpub, music discovery, recommender systems
Sky, water, dark - a good combo of the expected doom-metal tags

Automatically generate album covers with deep learning

Two weeks ago, I wrote about how I used Clarifai‘s deep learning image recognition API and Google Prediction to identify an artist genre based on their album cover. But what… Continued reading Automatically generate album covers with deep learning

PUBLISHED ON Posted on May 29, 2015May 29, 2015in Categories Music, Technology
Tags clarifai, deep learning, doom metal, flickr, machine learning, Pillow
Clarifai - Machine-Learning-as-a-Service

Identifying music genres from Spotify album covers using Clarifai’s deep learning API and Google Prediction

With the recent news of image recognition start-up Clarifai raising $10M, I decided to experiment with their Web API. While Deep Learning (the core of their… Continued reading Identifying music genres from Spotify album covers using Clarifai’s deep learning API and Google Prediction

PUBLISHED ON Posted on May 14, 2015October 8, 2015in Categories Music, Technology
Tags clarifai, Data Science, deep learning, google prediction, machine learning, Spotify
Summary of a day skiing with Ski Tracks (map view)

Testing ski apps in the French Alps

I’ve spend a week in Courchevel (French Alps), and besides seeing our 3 years old daughter discover snow, and proudly wearing her Piou-piou club medal on the slopes at the end… Continued reading Testing ski apps in the French Alps

PUBLISHED ON Posted on March 4, 2015May 13, 2015in Categories Personal, Sport, Technology
Tags apps, data, quantified self, ski tracks, skiing, strava, trace snow

The case for Tasks Queues on Google App Engine: Pinging remote APIs

I’ve spend the past few months building YapMe, and our first MVP was released on the AppStore a few days ago! The app aims to… Continued reading The case for Tasks Queues on Google App Engine: Pinging remote APIs

PUBLISHED ON Posted on January 25, 2015May 13, 2015in Categories Technology
Tags Architecture, Engineering, google app engine, Google Cloud Platform, intercom, Tasks queues, YapMe

Context: The future of music streaming and personalisation?

With CES starting tomorrow, I though it would be a good time to reflect on the future of music streaming, and what’s needed to own the space. Not… Continued reading Context: The future of music streaming and personalisation?

PUBLISHED ON Posted on January 5, 2015May 13, 2015in Categories Music, Technology
Tags CES, Data Science, music discovery, nest, Personalization, runkeeper, wearables

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