Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The Leaderboard: share.streamlit.io/playingnumbers/youtube_leaderboard/main/leaderboard.py.
In this video I show you how I built a Leaderboard for my YouTube Subscribers! A fun and interesting way for me to give back to my community through a data science project. Winners can earn incredible prizes from HP, NVIDIA, Interview Query, and Myself!

Try watching these next:
YouTube Algorithm Explained (By a Data Scientist): youtube.com/watch?v=YbTMIxjk4hI&ab_channel=KenJee
Find A Data Science Project With These 3 Techniques: youtube.com/watch?v=yUrrf3Pm33s&ab_channel=KenJee
Data Science Project from Scratch Series: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2zq7klxX5ASFejJj80ob9ZAnBHdz5O1t

All the Resources I used:
1) Getting YouTube Comments from the API: towardsdatascience.com/how-to-build-your-own-dataset-of-youtube-comments-39a1e57aade - This was an incredible resources. Special thanks to William Yang for putting this together!
2) MYSQL DB Setup: youtube.com/watch?v=Ng_zi11N4_c&ab_channel=BeABetterDev - @Be A Better Dev was a lifesaver for this project!
3) Docker: youtube.com/watch?v=YFl2mCHdv24&ab_channel=JakeWright - Great video by @Jake Wright!
Aws API Gateway & Lambda: youtube.com/watch?v=uFsaiEhr1zs&ab_channel=BeABetterDev - Another awesome vid by @Be A Better Dev
4) Cron job: cumulations.com/blogs/37/How-to-write-Cron-jobs-on-Amazon-Web-ServicesAWS-EC2-server
5) More API & Lambda Functions: hackersandslackers.com/build-api-aws
6) Richmond Alake: richmondalake.medium.com - Our interview: youtube.com/watch?v=EifneB374sE&ab_channel=Ken%27sNearestNeighborsPodcast
7) Streamlit: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtqF5YXg7GLmCvTswG32NqQypOuYkPRUE - Awesome examples and tutorials by @Data Professor
8) @TinaHuang1's sentiment analysis of the same data! youtube.com/watch?v=kHOVWiZKpHM&ab_channel=TinaHuang

Github: github.com/PlayingNumbers/YouTube_Leaderboard
streamlit.io
docker.com
HP OMEN: store.hp.com/us/en/slp/omen-gaming/accessories
NVIDIA DLI: nvidia.com/en-us/deep-learning-ai/education
Interview Query: interviewquery.com
My Merch: youtube.com/c/KenJee1/store?view_as=subscriber

Project structure:
0:00 Intro
0:44 Origin Story
1:32 The Plan
2:25 The Build
2:59 API Debacle
4:08 The Backend
4:33 Docker??
5:20 Hacked.
5:50 THE API
6:58 Build Summary
7:56 Leaderboard Demo!
8:25 Engagement Points
9:08 PRIZES
10:18 What's Next?
11:11 ;)

Official Rules and Terms/Conditions: docs.google.com/document/d/1JJEZR-AWtAoY31LJ7DCrjVjUqExb6U9BUzKqcOmWnCc/edit?usp=sharing

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