[CentralOH] Fun Python Project (for PyOhio)

[Eric Floehr]

Has anyone started this yet, or is thinking about it? It would really be
helpful to have for PyOhio.

Cheers,
Eric


On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Eric Floehr <eric at intellovations.com>
wrote:

> Joe mentioned at the meeting his idea for a Python challenge that would
> incorporate lots of different moving parts, done incrementally.
>
> I have a Python project/challenge project that would help out PyOhio and
> be a fun Fall/Winter project for you (yes, you!).
>
> The goal is to get data on PyOhio talk video views. This is important
> information that will help show potential sponsors of PyOhio the reach they
> will have by sponsoring at the highest levels and getting their logo on our
> videos.
>
> Ultimately:
>
> 1. Total view count
> 2. Total view count by year
> 3. List of videos sorted by view count and year
> 4. Collect view counts each day in a database and see how view counts
> change over time
> 5. Graph view counts over time
>
> Here is a suggested sequence of tasks:
>
> 1. Familiarize yourself with the PyOhio channel, which has playlists by
> year:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYqdrfvhGxNW3vXebypqXoQ/featured
>
> 2. Familiarize yourself with the YouTube API:
>
> https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/getting-started
>
> 3. Write a Python program to get the list of YouTube videos and their IDs
> in a playlist
>
> 4. Write a Python program to get view count from a single video ID
>
> 5. Write a Python program to combine #3 and #4
>
> 6. Take the Python program in #5 and apply it over the yearly PyOhio
> playlists mentioned in #1
>
> 7. Modify the Python program in #6 to sort videos in each playlist by view
> count
>
> 8. Create a database ...
>
> 9. Store the data in #7 in the database
>
>
> As you build these layers, and especially once you have a database of
> data, the next logical step would be to run it every day, and create a
> Django or Flask or Growler web server to display the data, hosted on the
> free tier of some app server like Heroku or Google App Engine.
>
> You could then even create a web API that would return the data in JSON,
> etc. and not just HTML.
>
> The possibilities are endless, and helpful!
>
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