Analyzing_Medium

What is Medium?

Medium is a blogging platform where writers and readers share their ideas. With a strong following in the tech community, it is a place where people can come to learn from professionals and industry experts. I began writing on Medium very recently, inspired to write about data-science and machine learning. For more information, check out my writing here.

This Project

In this project I collected data on 720K unique Medium stories from 36 of the most popular writing subjects. I used this data to answer the following questions.

1. What do I need to know about Medium as a writer and as a reader? (source)
2. Who are the top Data-Science writers on Medium? (source)
3. How can Medium writer's measure the performance of their stories? How can they compare their performance to that of similar writers? (source)

This repository is a collection of everything I found while analyzing the data collected from Medium. I hope you think it as interesting as I do.

My Findings

1. Most Stories on Medium receive very little reader engagement.

2. Stories are shorter in length. (2-3 Minutes)

3. Most authors only wrote one story, and a quarter were published in a publication.

4. The top 1% of stories received more than two thousand claps.

5. Authors can compare their stories to the top 1% of stories in their writing-topic.

6. The most-clapped stories on freeCodeCamp far outrank other, larger, publications.

7. Here are the top 100 most-clapped data-science writers on Medium of the last year. (I am 41st)