Exploring Goodreads Data: An Analysis of 10 Million Books Goodreads is one of the largest book websites on the internet. It has data about millions and millions of books from different genres and in many languages. It’s hard not to find a book on Goodreads whether it's published hundreds of...
This analysis was featured on: The Hustle newsletter (lead story), TechCrunch, Hacker News, The Growth Newsletter (issue #021), Social Blade, Data Science Weekly newsletter (Jul 09 2020's issue), Weekly, Tubefilter, Younes Talk, and more. Around 1.5 years ago, I did an analysis of YouTube...
In this post, I will present the results of a thorough analysis of international football matches that took place between 1872 and 2018 (147 years). International matches means matches between national teams like Brazil, Italy, Japan, Egypt, etc. The analysis uses a dataset published on Kaggle on...
Introduction In this post, I will talk about a project I’ve done in order to get IBM Data Science Professional Certificate. In this project, the neighborhoods of two important cities in the world—New York City (NYC) and Toronto—were clustered into groups of similar items. One can use the results...
Python is one of the main tools in the data science world today. Python has many packages and libraries for plotting. Matplotlib is one of the most used packages for plotting. However, the default plots are not that beautiful, in my opinion at least. Take a look below to see a plot produced with...
YouTube is the most popular and most used video platfrom in the world today. YouTube has a list of trending videos that is updated constantly. Here we will use Python with some packages like Pandas and Matplotlib to analyze a dataset that was collected over 205 days. For each of...
It’s a great time for women on SNL. Since the early 2000’s, the majority of the show’s breakout stars have been women. Of the 18 Emmy nominations for acting the show has received since 2000, 14 went to women. An anecdotal trend I’ve noticed in recent seasons is an increasing number of sketches...