Building my own (accurate!) Spotify Wrapped by Iulia Feroli

A talk about building a personal, accurate Spotify Wrapped by requesting your own listening data via GDPR rights and processing it with simple statistics and dashboarding tools. The speaker contrasts this DIY approach with Spotify's controversial 2024 Wrapped, which replaced straightforward statistics with AI-generated, often inaccurate personality labels. The core message: simple data analysis (sorting, counting, charting) is often more effective and honest than adding generative AI to a problem that doesn't need it. The project used Elasticsearch for dashboarding but any tool works, and the same approach can be applied to data from any company using GDPR data requests.