Hands-On Deep Learning Algorithms with Python

Data preparation

Read the downloaded input dataset:

df = pd.read_csv('data/songdata.csv')

Let's see what we have in our dataset:

df.head()

The preceding code generates the following output:

Our dataset consists of about 57,650 song lyrics:

df.shape[0]57650

We have song lyrics from about 643 artists:

len(df['artist'].unique())643

The number of songs from each artist is shown as follows:

df['artist'].value_counts()[:10]Donna Summer        191
Gordon Lightfoot    189
George Strait       188
Bob Dylan           188
Loretta Lynn        187
Cher                187
Alabama             187
Reba Mcentire       187
Chaka Khan          186
Dean Martin         186
Name: artist, dtype: int64

On average, we have about 89 songs from each ...