Everybody knows Shazam for their music recognition service. But have you already thought about the massive amount of users that tell Shazam data services that they like this particular song and want to know what it is? With all this data, Shazam can do a great job anticipating what will be the next billboard hit (and other things)

The talk is given by Cait O'Riordan, VP of product at Shazam.

O'Reilly Strata + Hadoop conference video: Predicting a Billboard Music Hit with Shazam Data - Cait O'Riordan (10 min)

There's also a lot of other mesmerizing data analysis done comparing the shazams the huge user base is doing... 10 min worth !