Monday, July 19, 2010

Youtube Experiment


1. Analyze the videos uploaded in term of YouTube category. Use tag cloud to measure the popularity of the category.





2. What are the most commonly used tags?


The most commonly used tags of all are the people and blogs with 13 out of 56 videos, and the next is entertainment with 11 tags. Other YouTube categories have 5 or less tags with the exception of Science, the only tag that was not used.






3. What’s the average length of the video uploaded?


Using the data gathered, the group inferred that the average length of the video during the first 2 hours is 3 minutes and 18 seconds. For the second 2 hours, the average length was 40 seconds and for the last 2 hours the average was 2 minutes and 19 seconds. The total average of all 60 videos was 2 minutes and 10 seconds.





4. What’s the average age of the video uploader?


Taking a look at the age of the uploaders, the average of the first hour was 25 years old, the second hour was 30 years old, and the last 2 hours was 27 years old. The average of all the 60 videos is around 27 years old.





5. Get the statistics of uploads by country.


The statistics show that out of the 60 videos, 17 of them were uploaded from the United States. This goes to show the United States has the biggest number of uploads compared to the other countries.






6. Get the statistics of uploads by language.


The statistics show that out of the 56 videos, 39 were in the English language. It can be concluded that English is still the prominent language that is used to communicate with other people. Also, compared to the other languages that only have 1 or 2 videos, the English language is the well-known or well-understood language of all.





7. Get the count of the videos that were blocked.


There no videos blocked but there were 4 videos that were deleted by the user before the group could watch the video. There is also one video removed.





8. Other significant results.

None.

9. Conclusion


There were trash videos that were seen while doing this experiment and English was the usual language by the video, even though some of these videos came from other countries other than the United States.