Trends Among YouTube’s Top Trending Videos

TAKESHWARI KAMAL, HIMA BINDHU MADALA, and HARINI SRIDHARAN

The aim of this project is to identify interesting features among YouTube’s top trending videos in the United States. Is there a correlation between number of views and comments? Do videos with a positive title sentiment accumulate more views than those with negative titles? Is there a correlation between number of likes/dislikes to the number of comments a video obtains? Another aspect of the project is to predict the view count of a video when it starts trending. Using the data available during the time a video is published- i.e. channel’s subscribers, title, time, is it feasible to predict the number of eventual views for a video?