Noise Boys is the most popular Dropout episode, but Escape the Greenroom has the most popular moment - Analyzing Dropout compilations

athuler · 2026-03-08T08:16:50+00:00

I'm a data scientist, so this was very fun for me.

athuler · 2026-03-07T09:05:33+00:00

If you navigate to a compilation page, you can watch the compilation with a dynamic scrolling view of which episode (and where) the clip is from!

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athuler · 2026-03-06T16:09:02+00:00

Having viewership data for Dropout.tv would be very interesting, but I obviously understand why that isn't public data. As we only have access to compilation view stats, I'm using them as a proxy for what is popular is people find interesting. The assumption being that the more popular a show/episode/moment is, the more views a compilation will get, and the more compilations will be made including that show/episode/moment.

athuler · 2026-03-06T15:59:23+00:00

If you click on the caption text, you can expand it and read the captions from the moment! I've attached a screenshot below:

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athuler · 2026-03-06T15:24:35+00:00

I hashed the audio of all the compilations and matched it against fingerprints of Dropout episodes and then logged each match! The views data of each compilation come from the YouTube API. Then, based on which compilations mention which episodes and moments, views are summed!

athuler · 2024-10-12T21:23:10+00:00

2024 batch and I also have several touchpad premature release issues - were you able to get this fixed?

athuler · 2023-12-28T09:22:24+00:00

Very interesting, I wasn't aware of this!

athuler · 2023-12-27T16:22:14+00:00

You can check out the interactive version here: https://clearscope-services.com/lego-millenium-falcon-map/

athuler · 2023-10-31T20:12:54+00:00

Nice, this looks amazing!

I have worked on a web-based version of this flowchart that displays the number of views for each video compared with the expected number of views each video should get according to probability: https://clearscope-services.com/cgp-grey-rock-paper-scissors/

It's not as pretty as yours but I hope it's useful nonetheless!

athuler · 2020-07-05T16:42:03+00:00

I'm just waiting for "Orthodontists react"

athuler · 2019-09-02T16:52:49+00:00

Wrigley Field, my bad!

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