"YC startups - where are they now?" - D3.js data visualization of 1,000+ YC startups across 7 years created with Python and BeautifulSoup.
This project was a quick, fun exploration of D3.js. Using BeautifulSoup and Python, I scraped data from YcList to obtain 7 years worth of data (1,000 startups) that attended YC between 2005 and 2012.
I categorised these startups into - % alive, % dead and % exited and saved these to a local CSV file.
I also developed a buzzword counter that classifies startups based on buzzwords e.g. '57 startups described themselves with the buzzword 'platform' and 31 desribed themselves with 'marketplace'. The ultimate goal was to correlate the use of buzzwords with likelihood of success (measured by % exited or % alive). I am yet to finish this.
Simply fork and clone this repo and you have access to a local copy of the code and data.
This project was built with
- D3.js
- Python
- BeautifulSoup
- YcList
- Data is stored in local CSV files