Assignment No. 7

Sort the data by 2 different variables and tell what you discover in that comparison. For instance, what do you notice about comparing and contrasting the view counts vs. the comments; or the channel views / subscribers and the channel/user; or the date added and the category? Let your readers know which columns you chose to compare and contrast and why?

I sorted the Hip-Hop Database by two different variables. Theses variables were the ratings and the duration. Before I actually sorted out the data, I assumed that the videos with the shortest duration would have the highest ratings. I figured this because more people are likely to watch the entire video as opposed to watchin a video that was extremely long. However, this was not the case. I found that overall the longer videos had the most ratings. I found this to be surprising which is why I chose to compare and contrast those two variables.

Can you figure out the system I used to enter the data on the tags? You may have to visit a few of the videos to compare the entries in the database to the actual tags. This will assist you in thinking about context rather than content.

From what I saw in the database, the system you used to enter the data on the tags is if its music video or a video about a specific group or artist you would tag it as there name. For example the video Ghostface- The World According to Pretty Toney is tagged as Ghostface Killa Wu. Thats the artist's name and the group he belongs to. Also videos that are not specifically about an artist are tagged as Hip Hop. I also noticed however, that some videos which are specifically about an artist is tagged both ways. Kanye West's love lockdown is tagged as Kanye and hip-hop. So that's what I observed.


The History of YouTube : YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. YouTube was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees. In January 2008 alone, nearly 79 million users had made over 3 billion video views and over 13 hours of video are uploaded every minute.

Given that YouTube only began in Feb 2005, what can you say about the earliest hiphop videos currently on our database? What does it say about the kind of hip-hop on YouTube in the early years and what categories of hip-hop were present?

Well one of the earliest hip-hop videos currently in the database is actually one that I chosed. The video is Nas-If I Ruled the World. This is one of my all time favorite songs. I also feel as though there is a wide range of hip-hop videos that were posted earlier. There were old skool videos, a hip-hop dance competition, and hip-hop and chinese video. So early one on youtube, there was a mass appeal of hip-hop and it was also world-wide since the early stages of youtube. I feel that now the only change is that youtube has helped caused hip-hop to spread even more in places you would never imagine.