Music Stats

Musical Experiment

My experiment were to collect data from participants to infer from a very small population to find out if age has any correlation to musical listeners. If any genre, devices, or platforms were more preferable according to age.

Participant Variables

Data collected from survey of students and friends.
Tabulation of variables using Google Sheets

Count of Genres

Tabulation of the Genre variable in Total and Percentages. We can see that from the data collected and summarized that Pop and Rock are popularly preferred out of the genre with higher percentages overall.

Pie Chart (Percentages)

A Pie Chart displaying total percentages from the Genre variable. This graph was used for fun. Since, I am still learning about visual graphics from collected data. Each color represents a variable.

Histogram of Music Listeners

Histogram and boxplot shows statistical data of age range of music listeners in a bimodal pattern.

Skewness near '0' means near symmetric. However, a positive number is a right skew. However, this graph shows a bimodal pattern.

(R and Excel) I'm still learning R at the moment and design may appear abnormal awesome.

Histogram of Ages (Bar chart)

The histogram bar chart shows a bimodal pattern. This indicates that participants near their 20s and 30s listen to music more often.

Perhaps this also indicates that at a low peak for certain ages infers that those listen to music less often.

Histogram of Ages (Candlestick Chart)

This histogram box plot and candlestick chart displays the Min, Q1, Q3, and Max values from the participants.

We can see that the average age of the listeners are in age 30 range based on 22 participants.

Data of Attributes

Two sets of data attributes collected from participants for gender and devices.

Pivot Table of Attributes

A pivot table displaying the cross referencing of two attributes, gender and number of devices. Do understand that 'Other' here represents several devices as preferences.

Bar Chart of Attributes

Bar chart displays a visual data of devices of each gender has selected. We can see here that the data collected from female participants prefer to use phones and several other devices for music. As for a large portion of males enjoying the stereo as their source for music.

Summary

We can see that based on age ranges from 16 to 46 that Pop and Rock are most popular from the 22 participants. That is 13 out of 22 of the participants, which equates to roughly 59% of the participants of 22 surveyors.

The platforms preferred varied among the participants with the fewest preferring to listen to the radio for their musical entertainment. However, the graphical data does not make an obvious distinction because 'Total' refers to several platforms are used.

As for gender, we can surmised from the data that female participants prefer their phones to listen to music. As well as several devices which is listed on the data labeled 'Other.' This concludes that females may have a preference for phones and several other devices that weren't listed on the survey. With few of the female participants preferring the MP3 and stereo devices as their primary media devices.

For males, the stereo has a high peak which indicates that they prefer this device. However, this is based on very small participants of 22 from mixed genders. With an average of PC users and several devices that males prefer as their media consumption.

We may assume that the population may be inferred from the data collected that radio or stereo users have a higher selection based on older ages.

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