information design through screens & objects

Analyzing & classifying bird audio


2021
programming (Python, Librosa, scikit-learn), tutorial write-up
A data science tutorial on analyzing audio data of bird song, feature engineering, and classifying audio clips as having a bird or no bird . The tutorial walks through aspects of audio data and what they mean, feature extraction in time and frequency domains, and finally training and validating supervised Machine Learning models (Random Forest, Support Vector Machine, K-Neighbors) using Librosa and scikit-learn. You can find the tutorial as a Colab notebook and Deepnote article.