So I'm working on a project for my University where our current plan is to use the YouTube API and do some data analysis. We have some ideas since we're looking at the Terms of Service and the Developer Policies, but we're not entirely sure about a few things.
Our project does not focus on things such as monetary gain or predicting estimated income from a video or anything of that nature, or anything regarding trying to determine user data such as passwords/usernames, etc. It's much more about the content and statistics of the videos rather than anything else.
Our current ideas that we want to be sure would be ok to do and use:
- Determine the category of a video given its title
- Determine the category of a video given its tags
- Determine the category of a video given its description
- Determine the category of a video given its thumbnail
- Some combination of above to create an ensemble model
- Clustering on videos category/view counts
- Sentiment analysis on comments
- Trending topics over time
These are just a vague list for now but I would love to be able to reach out more to figure out what all we're allowed to use the data for.