Context

As YouTube becomes one of the most popular video-sharing platforms, YouTuber is developed as a new type of career in recent decades. YouTubers earn money through advertising revenue from YouTube videos, sponsorships from companies, merchandise sales, and donations from their fans. In order to maintain a stable income, the popularity of videos become the top priority for YouTubers. Meanwhile, some of our friends are YouTubers or channel owners in other video-sharing platforms. This raises our interest in predicting the performance of the video. If creators can have a preliminary prediction and understanding on their videos’ performance, they may adjust their video to gain the most attention from the public.

You have been provided details on videos along with some features as well. Can you accurately predict the number of likes for each video using the set of input variables?

Content

Train Set

video_id -> Identifier for each video

title -> Name of the Video on Youtube

channel_title -> Name of the Channel on Youtube

category_id -> Category of the Video (anonymous)

publish_date -> The date video was published

tags -> Different tags for the video

views -> Number of views received by the Video

dislikes -> Number of dislikes on the Video

comment_count -> Number on comments on the Video

description -> Textual description of the Video

country_code -> Country from which the Video was published

likes -> Number of Likes on the video

Acknowledgements

Thank You Analytics Vidhya for providing this dataset.

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