1st Meeting (15-Sep-17) Updates
We did a quick self-introduction and shared our project ideas with one another. The end goal for this semester is to turn every one of your personal project ideas into reality!
For those of you who did not attend the first meeting, do read my “Me + Jay Shetty + VBA” blog post here. I will just go through the refinement of Alex’s Idea here so that you all can understand my thought process.
Alex’s Idea:
GREAT IDEA! It is something that I would be interested to find out too! Analyzing demographics, session lengths are not possible because they are only available to the uploader. We can only scrape data that is on the surface (like views, likes and dislikes). So let us refine it. Notice how there is only one point of focus in this idea below (Youtube views)
Idea: Analyze how Youtube views climb from upload date (T+0 day) to T+3 Day
Data Required: Video Link when new video launched, Youtube Views every hour
Output: Hourly number of views for a particular video. 3 days x 24 hours = 72 Data Points

- What kind of videos?
- How do I know when a new video is launched?
- Am I going to compare video views trend between youtube channels or within youtube channel?
- Flow from start to end (E.g. put link intro program >> access website >> scrape Youtube Views from URL >> Close Website >> Store Views in an Excel File >> Repeat program with new sheet / file for new program)
ToDo for Week 2
VBA Members can drop me a msg in our whatsapp grp, Non-VBA members can drop me an email at ganesh.m@u.nus.edu if you have any questions.
Have a great week ahead guys!
Written by Ganesh Muthupalani
This blog is managed by the Data Analytics team of the National University of Singapore Business Analytics Society (NUS BAS), a student-run society that aims to strengthen the analytics capability of NUS Business School and build a community of future business leaders that are data-savvy. We will actively discuss and contribute to the ongoing development of the world of data in this blog.