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Ask HN: Researching My YouTube Addiction

2 pointsby garianyalmost 5 years ago
Hi everyone, ever since YouTube changed their recommendation engine from the subscription feed to a personalized recommendation feed, I find myself spending hours of my day (unwillingly!) on YouTube.<p>I noticed I really got addicted and I don&#x27;t like it.<p>So I downloaded all of my &#x27;watch&#x27; data from YouTube and I&#x27;m trying to research how they were able to program my mind.<p>The data I have is a timeline of every video I&#x27;ve watched in the past 2.5 years. It includes the hour of the day I played the video, the duration of the video and other metadata about the video&#x2F;channel etc.<p>I wanted to get your recommendation on what interesting correlations I can find in the data?<p>I thought of simple questions such as: Which channels I watch the most? which tags&#x2F;topics&#x2F;key words in title I watch the most? What is the average time I spend a day on YouTube? How much of it is continuous?<p>ps. If anyone would like to panther on this research please reach out. My name is Elad and my last name is Gariany. My email is my first@last.com

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