A walkthrough of Kpop Idols — What is an idol? An idol is a charismatic young entertainer who sings, dances, appears on reality shows and social media. And what is an Kpop idol? As I Kpop fan and a data scientist, I have been trying to give a considerate answer by doing data analytics on Kpop idol industry. I studied two different subjects overlapped together —…

link to my Github for more code: https://github.com/charliezcr/Kpop-Data-Analysis/blob/main/kda.ipynb Kpop refers to the music genre and its idol industry originated in South Korea. Unlike other music genres having blurry origin and developed gradually in today’s form, Kpop has an actual birthday when Seo Taiji and Boys debuted on 1992–03–23. After…

link to my Github for more code: https://github.com/charliezcr/Social-Media-Analytics/blob/main/sma.ipynb In the recent presidential election, Joe Biden just defeated Donald Trump and became the next president of the United States. The statistics of their use of social media, especially Twitter, are interesting materials to analyze because they provide insights about the presidents’…

Recently, the discussion of Olympic gold medalist Eileen Gu’s citizenship went viral on Chinese social media. When I read all those posts expressing confusion, doubts and even envy, I really want to say that you guys all forget that Eileen is skiing for her passion. The most important thing for…

We have all seen movies depicting AI as a threat. In Avengers 2, Ironman created Ultron so that it can help avengers to defend people from enemies. But Ultron went out of control and wanted to dominate people, becoming an enemy. But as a professional machine learning engineer, I do…

pt.4 BERT — link to my Github for more code: https://github.com/charliezcr/Sentiment-Analysis-of-Movie-Reviews/blob/main/sa_p4.ipynb In part 1, 2, 3 of this study of sentiment analysis of IMDb movie reviews, I used classic supervised learning methods. In this part, I will use transfer learning with the model BERT. Transfer Learning Unlike the models trained by myself part 1–3, transfer…

As I Kpop fan and a data scientist, I have been doing data analytics on Kpop, trying to mine data-driven insights about Kpop idol industry. I did the profiling of this industry, analyzed major agencies’ business performance, their international marketing strategies, and Kpop music videos on YouTube. …

Kpop Data Analysis pt.5 — link to my Github for more code: https://github.com/charliezcr/Kpop-Data-Analysis/blob/main/kda6.ipynb As I pointed it out in part.1 of Kpop Data Analysis. On average, Kpop groups have 5.5 members. 5-member group is the most common form. Usually, a Kpop group consists of a main vocalist, a main rapper, a main dancer, a visual…

Kpop Data Analysis pt.4 — link to my Github for more code: https://github.com/charliezcr/Kpop-Data-Analysis/blob/main/kda5.ipynb As Kpop becomes increasingly international, YouTube plays an important role as the digital platform for Kpop idols to share their music videos to the audience all over the world. The view count is a key metrics reflecting the music videos’ international…