YouTubeDataCollection

popular_vid_in_location.py

This file is used to collect data about the most popular YouTube videos in a location(s)

Input: list of locations

Ouptut: output.csv which contain info about the most popular YouTube videos at the location(s)

processing_popular_vid_in_location.py

This file is used to process the data collected from popular_vid_in_location.py to extract the Tags associated with each video.

Input: output.csv

Output: videoTitleByTagsNetwork.csv

generate_gephi_files.py

This script will read the videoTitleByTagsNetwork.csv file generated by processing_popular_vid_in_location.py and produce two output files called edges.csv and nodes.csv these files can be imported directly to Gephi

Before running this script you need to remove the header/first row of the videoTitleByTagsNetwork.csv file

Input: videoTitleByTagsNetwork.csv

Output: edges.csv and nodes.csv