Finding best data science YouTube channels by scraping the YouTube
Now a days YouTube is the best source which helps us to share and utilize the knowledge among the people by creating the community. Each video in the YouTube is someone’s knowledge that helps other people in many ways. This is one of the best place to learn and earn.
YouTube has the vast growth for past 5years, at the side of education it plays a vital role to by giving many contents. Peoples for different countries were share their knowledge through this platform. Best contents gets best reward in the shape of subscribers, views, likes.
Our Work
Among the educational contents many channels were contributed their work in this platform. Some channels were rapidly working on their content. Likewise there are many channels that contributes their content in the data science domain yet.
As there are many channels till the date, peoples are used to go for the some specific contents. So we decided to recognize the top 10 data science YouTube channels based on which channels has more content, subscribers, views. Then make a visualization of it.
How We Did
YouTube does not provide their data as like other social media did. Scraping is the way that we took to get the data. Not every scraping library in python can scrap the YouTube, so we use Octoparse free data scraping tool. We use “Data Science” keyword in search to get the channels which is related to data science. In the filter,
- sort by : view count
- Type : channel
This scraped data need some preprocessing techniques to become the proper data for visualization. Finally tableau viz tool helps us to make the data picture.
Here are the top 10 data science YouTube channels:
1. Edureka !
subscribers :26.4 lakh | Videos : 4.2k | Views : 21,61,87,313
2. Simplilearn
subscribers : 10.7 lakh | Videos : 2.7k | Views : 73,779,518
3.Joma Tech
subscribers : 10.6 lakh | Videos : 86 | Views : 66,827,579
4. Intellipaat
subscribers : 9.73 lakh | Videos :969,000 | Views : 47,898,953
5. Siraj Raval
subscribers : 7.12 lakh | Videos :428 | Views : 4,32,93,865
6. StatQuest with Josh Starmer
subscribers : 4.92 lakh | Videos :199 | Views : 2,39,08,296
7. Krish Naik
subscribers : 3.67 lakh | Videos : 1k | Views : 2,57,05,944
8. Codebasics
subscribers : 3.11 lakh | Videos : 396 | Views : 1,86,40,498
9. Data School
subscribers : 1.73 lakh | Videos : 100 | Views : 84,99,225
10. DataCamp
subscribers : 1.15 lakh | Videos : 1.2k | Views : 1,54,47,981
Among these 10 channels, 6 of the channels are organizations which has a team and consistently working for the data science contents, other 4 are individuals also having connections with organization for making data science contents.
Hope you get some useful info from this blog. There may be some blunder in this blog that I did’t look out of that. If you spotted anything please notify me.
Happy Analysing…
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