Soc-med Youtube Traffic Experiment

EXPERIMENT NO. 3: YOUTUBE TRAFFIC EXPERIMENT

The objective of this experiment is to determine the level of popularity, confidence and web host reliability of Youtube as a resource/multimedia facility.

On March 10-14 or March 7-11, all study groups will be conducting the Youtube Traffic Experiment. SGs have the option to approach the experiment

a. choose a specific schedule like 1:00-3:00pm for five consecutive days;
b.choose a weekend day let’s say March 12, 6:00am-4:00pm or 12:00nn-10pm.
for a total of ten (10) hours.

Every two hours, the group will watch the recent 20 videos uploaded in Youtube.

1.Analyze the videos uploaded in terms of Youtube category. Use tag cloud to measure the popularity of the category.

Reference to tag cloud:
http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/page/Tag_Cloud.html
http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/89ade5ae18be22b20118beb016cb0109/comments/8d3e022cad9c11ddbb7a000255111976

Youtube categories are:
Music Entertainment People & Blogs Comedy Sports Education Autos Film HowTo News Pets Science Travel

2.What are the most commonly used tags? (You may also use tag cloud for this purpose.)
3.What’s the average length of the video uploaded?
4.What’s the average age of the video uploader?
5.Get the statistics of uploads by country.
6.Get the statistics of uploads by language.
7.Get the count of the videos that were blocked.
8.Explain the trending you have observed during this week.
9.Analyze the common content that were uploaded. Explain the motivation of this phenomenon. Will you be able to relate this to the 2008 lecture of Mike Wesch? Does the former phenomenon of people's personal experiences being shared still holds? Why or why not?
10.Other significant results.

Exclusion: videos that were blocked.
*This experiment was patterned after a huge concluded study of Kansas State Univ.

Presentation of Results: March 21, class time. Make sure the results are already uploaded in the blog.
Printed tally/worksheets sheets or the Excel file created, with annotations, in report form will be submitted to the class adviser.