Uncovering strategies for effective content writing on Medium
In this project, I wanted to use data analysis to discover how content and formatting decisions impact a Medium article's claps, with the goal of using these insights to help me maximize claps on my own articles. To this end I scraped a year of data science articles from Medium, parsed those articles for features, and developed several regression models to predict claps. Check out my project writeup here.
- Step 1: Scraping the data
- Step 2: Data processing and feature engineering
- Step 3: Building a regression model
- Step 4: Interpreting the model
- Step 5: Visualizing the data and results
More results available here.
- Publish with a publication!
- Publish with Towards Data Science or Analytics Vidhya
- Use bolding and italics frequently (when appropriate)
- Long texts are okay!
- Use pictures often in your articles
- Use all five article tags
- Avoid using numbers in your titles
Thanks to Harrison Jansma for inspiring this project!