UVA Data Points Podcast: Transforming Spotify Data Into Art

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January 21, 2025

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Portrait of Pete Cybriwsky standing in front cases of records — UVA Alum Pete Cybriwsky is based out of New York where he is running n-gen, a studio that works with consumer applications to turn their users' data into unique, dynamic, digital art.

Many of us look forward to our Spotify wrapped at the end of the year. It's fun to see your whole year in music reflected back to you in the form of auras and moods and, of course, ranked lists, all powered by the cold, hard data of our listening habits. But there's so much more data available to visualize as art. That's what Pete Cybriwsky does.

Visualization of Spotify data with waves that show a year of listening habits.

Pete is an entrepreneur and award-winning artist building at the intersection of data and art. He is currently based out of New York where he is running n-gen, a studio that works with consumer applications to turn their user's personal data into unique, dynamic, digital art. In-addition to n-gen, he just launched an iOS app, Day by Data, to turn data into art on your phone. Pete is a 2019 graduate of the University of Virginia where he studied computer science and engineering.

In this podcast, you'll hear him in conversation with Lane Rasberry wikimedian in residence at the UVA School of data science.

If you want to learn more about Pete's work, check out his new app Day By Data.

To turn your Spotify data into art, visit ngenart.com.