This is a brief demonstration some facts of the Ted Talk videos.

Context

These datasets contain information about all audio-video recordings of TED Talks uploaded to the official TED.com website until September 21st, 2017. The TED main dataset contains information about all talks including number of views, number of comments, descriptions, speakers and titles. The TED transcripts dataset contains the transcripts for all talks available on TED.com.

(retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/rounakbanik/ted-talks)

Section 1:Numbers of Language

Ted Talk sometimes offers various versions in different languages.

This graph reflects the distribution of the available languages. The majority videos have 20-40 available languages.

Section 2:Offering More Available Languages Encourages Comments

When Ted offers more available languages of videos, the numbers of comments is usually also high.

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This is a reasonable trend since more available languages should allow more groups of people understand the content and hence increase their chance of commenting.

Section 3:Numbers of Views By Year

Each point on this graph represents a Ted Talk video, which is color-coded by the most popular label voted by the audiences.

In general, the numbers of view are especially high for videos between 2007 to 2015 that peak at 2012. Moreover, based on the color-coded popular labels, it seems the funny ones, which also shows the highest viewing records, are the most welcomed among the audiences.

Acknowledgements

The data has been scraped from the official TED Website and is available under the Creative Commons License.