Lessons learned from a data science project on meme popularity

By Medium - 2021-03-17

Description

Dank or Not? — a good question in the world of memes, viral internet content filled with humor reflecting current trends spreading through the online world. A group of talented students at AIT…

Summary

  • Dank or Not?
  • — After the first data cleaning steps, we had 80362 records of image-based memes with a large set of metadata, like the number of upvotes, the subreddit in which the meme was posted, the title, and so on.
  • It was exciting to investigate how the text and image content of the most popular memes looked like just at the pandemic outbreak.
  • Summary It was a great experience and challenge to be a part of this data science project targeting the prediction of the popularity of memes with different machine learning techniques.

 

Topics

  1. Backend (0.33)
  2. Machine_Learning (0.27)
  3. Database (0.21)

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