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Transcript
A lot of aspiring data analysts ask
me, is AI going to take our jobs?
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:Are we cooked?
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:And my honest answer is,
let's watch and find out.
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:So I did that exactly in this episode.
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:I gave Claude code a real data
analyst project, the kind of analysis
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:that I used to spend hours on, and
I just kind of let a do its thing.
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:Here's what happens.
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:So here's the project.
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:I want to get some insights
on my YouTube channel.
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:What videos are doing well and why
they're doing well, so I can try
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:to make better performing videos in
the future and more helpful videos
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:for you guys who are watching, or
the you guys who are listening.
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:So what I did is I opened up
YouTube creator studio and
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:filtered by the last 365 days.
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:And got different things like the
content data, the traffic source
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:data, the geography data, and I
just exported all those as CSVs
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:straight to this folder here.
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:And so you can see I have a content
geography, new and returning viewers,
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:playlist posts, subscription status,
traffic source, and viewer age, zip
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:folders right here on my desktop.
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:And basically I wanna see what's
going well with my channel and what's
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:not doing so well with my channel.
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:If I were doing this analysis myself or
giving it to another fellow data analyst,
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:I would just kind of hope that they'd
go through all the data, explore it,
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:and generate some meaningful insights.
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:If they had prior domain knowledge
about YouTube videos, they might
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:know to look through, click-through
rates on the thumbnails and average
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:view durations of certain videos.
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:But if I gave it to just a normal data
analyst, they probably wouldn't have that
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:domain knowledge of YouTube, and so they
wouldn't know where to look necessarily.
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:In this case, I'm not going to use my
domain knowledge to give Claude any hints.
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:I just wanna see what it
comes up with on its own.
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:So let's go ahead and open up Claude.
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:So if you haven't checked out
Claude yet, I highly recommend it.
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:It's produced by a company called
Anthropic that's very similar
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:competitor to OpenAI, and Claude is
basically a competitor to chat GPT.
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:Now, Claude has gained a lot of popularity
in the last, I don't know, six months,
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:because one, it can write really well.
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:Two, it can code really well.
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:Andro has basically decided that it
doesn't want to be good at everything.
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:It just wants to be good at
writing and good at coding.
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:And here's the truth is when
you're good at writing and good
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:at coding, you're very powerful.
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:So they have this chat interface
that's very similar to Chat GPT,
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:but they also have this thing
called Claude Code right here.
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:Now, Claude Code is
basically the coding version.
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:Of Claude, it's more designated
for getting tasks done,
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:specifically coding tasks.
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:And you can use the CLI, which is
basically the command line interface.
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:Basically, that would look like you
opening up your command prompt and
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:then typing in Claude right here.
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:And then boom, Claude Code pops up here.
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:So you can have like a command line
terminal version of Claude Code.
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:Or you can just use the desktop app,
which has Claude Code right here.
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:Now, personally, I like using the desktop
app because terminals and command lines
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:still make me a little bit scared, and
it's just harder to know what's going on.
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:So I'll be using the desktop
version of Claude Code.
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:Now, I will say that I pay a
hundred dollars a month for
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:Claude's Max subscription plan.
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:Basically, that means I have the
very powerful version of Claude and
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:I can use their most powerful model.
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:Opus 4.6,
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:which is basically just their
smartest, most sophisticated,
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:best model that they have.
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:They've also recently updated
it to have a 1 million context
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:window, which is very powerful.
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:Basically, it allows you to have
a lot of context, which can be
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:good if you have a lot of data.
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:Now, if you were to change models
from Opus to something like sonnet,
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:this is their less powerful model.
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:Now, sauna is still really good, but if
you were to change it to Haiku, which
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:is really just their weakest model.
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:It probably wouldn't do as well.
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:So depending on what model you're using,
the performance will definitely change.
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:The results will definitely change.
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:So I'm just gonna use the most
powerful model just to see
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:what we're working with here.
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:Now, recently when I'm using AI
tools, uh, I have really gotten
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:into dictation, and the reason
being is I kind of suck at writing.
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:I kind of suck at typing, and if
I can just brain dump my thoughts
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:verbally, I find that to be a lot
more effective than me filtering my
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:thoughts via my typing with my fingers.
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:So I'll just go ahead and click
the record button right here.
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:In this folder, you'll find a set
of zip folders that contains the
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:analytics for my YouTube channel
directly exported from YouTube Studio.
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:I'd like you to analyze these data
sets and provide me meaningful,
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:actionable insights on what I
could be doing better on my YouTube
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:channel and what I'm doing well.
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:And that's the prompt.
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:I'm literally going to give Claude,
and I'm just gonna press this go
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:button and see what it comes up with.
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:It's gonna ask if it trusts this
workspace, and it indeed does.
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:And you'll notice that I
have that folder right here.
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:It's literally attached
to this folder right here.
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:And that's the thing is cloud
code isn't working in the cloud.
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:It's working here locally on your machine.
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:So literally it has this YouTube
data analysis folder, the
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:contents of which are inside.
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:Now, I'm kind of curious.
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:It's gonna ask me a lot
of permission things.
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:I'm gonna literally just do, uh,
allow always for this project
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:for right now, uh, I'm curious if
it's gonna be able to unzip these.
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:It should be able to.
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:Um, but we'll see what it actually
does to, to make this go through.
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:So it's just like, Hey, do you wanna make
sure that I can run all these commands and
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:I'm gonna let it run all these commands
because I, uh, trust it for right now.
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:Now you obviously probably wanna
be a little bit more careful than
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:me when allowing these AI agents
to do things on your desktop.
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:You probably wanna make
sure you know that.
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:What's actually going on.
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:But to be honest, I'm a little
bit lazy and I just, I trust her.
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:So far so good.
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:Obviously there's been a lot of issues.
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:I know that there's been one machine
learning content creator who like deleted
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:an entire database completely with cloud
code, so you, you gotta be careful and
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:make sure you know what it's doing.
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:So right now it basically looks
like it created a user memory for
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:me and it's compiling the analysis.
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:It, read all the key files,
understand the picture.
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:It's running these bash commands.
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:It looks looking like it's
getting the CSV files.
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:And this is, yeah, look, this
is what's in the CSV file.
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:You can kinda see one of my titles,
I'd become a data analyst in:
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:Then you're seeing some of the numbers,
views on a certain date or something like
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:that, and you can see that it did that
with, um, post data, the content data,
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:the playlist data, so on and so forth.
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:So you can kind of see.
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:What it's thinking about, let's
see what it's doing right now.
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:Um, it, it just created like a, a file,
a memory file for me about, you know,
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:who I am and what this project is about.
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:And it says Avery Smith is a, oh, okay.
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:Let's see what it, it
came up with some stuff.
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:I don't know what it's doing.
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:Ah, okay.
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:Here's my full analysis
of your YouTube channel.
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:Over the past year, we've had 1.7
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:million views, a hundred thousand
watch hours, 29,000 subscribers
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:gained about $8,000 in ad revenue, 30
million impressions, a click through
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:rate of 3% average view, duration of.
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:Four minutes and 442
videos in the dataset.
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:What we're doing, well, massive reach
with how to become a data analyst content.
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:Your top two videos alone account for
22% of the total, um, which is how I'd
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:become a data analyst in 2026 and how
become a data data analyst in:
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:I basically just changed.
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:The 2025 video to 2026.
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:Uh, let's editor, let's,
let's rule that out.
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:If you're wondering why those video
titles are the same, it's because one
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:of 'em is actually for 2025, not for
:
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:purposes, that it would be normal.
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:That way people could actually
find the video still and be
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:interested in watching it.
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:'cause although some things have changed
from 20 25, 20 26, a lot remains the same.
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:This also drove 12,000 subscribers,
which is 41% of my subscribers
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:gained two strong subscriber
conversion on career advice video.
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:Videos like I analyzed 2,893 Data
Analyst jobs don't miss these six
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:entry data levels jobs, and nine huge
lies about becoming Data analysts
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:have excellent sub to view ratios.
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:Your audience converts to
subscribers when you deliver data
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:backed actionable career insights.
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:All right, let's get to know Number three.
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:Excellent watch time on long
form interview content, your
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:podcast slash interview video.
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:So I, I like that it.
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:Figured out that I have like podcasty
style videos and interview style
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:videos versus just like YouTube videos.
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:I think that's really interesting
that it already gleaned that
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:'cause I didn't tell it that.
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:Right.
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:Um, let's see How to earn 250,000
with multiple remote data jobs.
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:13,000 views, but 2000
hours of watch time.
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:Data analyst mock interview, 25,000
views,:
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:time, and an 8% click-through rate.
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:Wow.
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:See, that's really interesting.
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:Playlist driven watch time is
strong in your data career.
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:Uh, podcast playlist alone drives
658 hours of playlist watch time.
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:It's just listing a bunch of things.
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:I don't know.
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:Some of it's actionable.
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:Uh, we'll see if it suggests things.
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:Um, audience demographics,
basically 25 to 44.
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:Mostly us, India, uk, and Canada.
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:Um.
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:Browse features and suggested videos
are your top engagement sources.
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:By watch time, this actually means YouTube
is actively recommending your content.
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:The algorithm likes you.
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:Oh, I'm glad to hear that.
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:Sometimes it feels like it doesn't.
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:Alright, what needs improvement?
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:My CTR is below average.
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:YouTube considers four to 5% healthy CTR.
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:You're at 3% overall.
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:Some of your biggest videos in the 2.4,
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:2.8%,
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:this means your thumbnails
and titles are underperforming
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:relative to your impressions.
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:Your highest.
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:CTR videos give you
clues about what works.
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:Okay.
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:Then it says How to export
Tableau dashboard to image 15%.
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:So this is interesting because me having
those domain knowledge and actually
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:like being a YouTube content creator
and knowing YouTube, I know that this
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:is bad advice because let's, let's go.
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:In fact, let's go to how to
exports Tableau dashboard to image.
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:And if you actually just go to
Google and you search that I'm gonna
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:be the first video that pops up.
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:Right, and so when you're
ranking number one on Google.
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:You're going to have a high click
through rate because most of this
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:video's traffic comes via search,
not via browse or suggested videos.
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:So with search, you're like already
know what you really want, right?
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:You're like, this is what I want.
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:And when someone's like, Hey, here
you go, you're gonna click on it.
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:So that's why you have a high.
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:Click through rate versus if you're just
like on, you know, YouTube in general,
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:just on the like, uh, homepage, right?
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:Mm-hmm.
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:Right here, it's like, I
don't know what I want.
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:Do I wanna watch the, this is a
new chapter, or how I built a lead
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:magnet or, um, what is Databricks?
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:Those types of things.
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:Right?
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:Oh, editor, let's redo that
because I don't want 'em to see
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:that I'm watching this video.
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:When you open up YouTube, it's like.
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:What do you wanna watch?
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:Do I wanna watch you know,
data with Barr right now?
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:Do I wanna watch Mark Lowe?
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:Do I watch Tom Scott?
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:What am I in the mood for?
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:Maybe I'm gonna play
this Burger Life game.
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:There's just a lot more distractions and
earning the click here is a lot harder
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:to do than if you're like, you know.
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:How to export to Tableau
dashboard to image.
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:Oh, okay.
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:I'm number one.
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:Click on Google for, or
YouTube for this click.
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:Like, that's the reason why that
click through rate is high is
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:because it's mostly search base
versus browse or the homepage.
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:Um, same with these videos.
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:These are all going to be,
um, higher search videos.
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:This one's not, which is interesting.
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:Um, I'll admit, becoming a data
analysis is sustainable right now.
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:Um, so that ones may be
interesting to look into.
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:Titles with specificity,
controversy, or clear utility.
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:Get clicked more.
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:You're brought how to
become a data analyst.
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:Titles get massive impressions, but lower
CTR consider AB testing thumbnails on your
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:top impression videos, even with a 0.5%
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:improvement.
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:That's 30,000 more views.
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:View your retention is short.
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:Yes, I agree.
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:Let's see.
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:Um, action.
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:Front load your value, your
short form content isn't
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:driving meaningful engagement.
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:That's why we stopped posting
short form, uh, engagement.
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:Really, to be honest, 89% of
views come from non-subscribers.
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:Let's see your attorney viewers have a 3.7
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:click through rate versus a 2.81
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:for new viewers.
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:And watch a minute, 20 longer,
add stronger CTAs for subscribing
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:mid video, not just the end.
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:Consider a subscriber CTA
in the first two minutes.
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:Okay?
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:If you guys are watching right
now, hit subscribe so that way
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:you can make Claude and me happy.
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:Right?
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:And that's, I'm doing my CTA right here.
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:Hit subscribe right now.
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:Um, okay.
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:YouTube search is high volume,
but low engagement brings
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:in a lot of YouTube search.
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:Your number one source by view count,
but it doesn't have long view duration.
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:I don't even know if that's true.
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:I'm gonna go back to the actual
raw data here, and I'm just
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:gonna go to traffic source.
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:Oh, wow.
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:See, I don't think I knew that
that search, which is this.
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:Now see, oh, I don't know.
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:Search is this, um, blue
bar right here, right?
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:And it's saying it's my number one
traffic source over the last 365 days.
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:And I don't know if it
is browse, is this green?
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:And it looks like it's above blue
most of the time, except for, um,
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:a little bit of a period last year.
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:I don't know.
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:That's really interesting.
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:I don't know if blue is always higher.
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:It's more steady, which is really nice.
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:At suggested videos and browse
videos are very similar.
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:So if you take green plus yellow,
that's always gonna be bigger than blue.
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:But I guess it's not combining
those, it doesn't know, once again,
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:it's missing that domain knowledge.
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:Browse and suggested are very
similar style type videos because
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:once again, you're, you're having
to earn the click in those.
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:Um, maybe, maybe I'm over assuming how
similar they are, but from my domain
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:experience, these two are very similar.
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:Okay, interesting.
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:Action search viewers are
looking for quick answers.
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:Consider creating dedicated answer videos.
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:Under five minutes optimize
for search while keeping your
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:longer career advice for browse.
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:Interesting.
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:Your Tableau export video.
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:Of a 15.64%
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:CTR proves this model.
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:Well, okay, it proves that we have
a high click-through rate, but do
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:I get anything from that video?
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:I'd argue not really.
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:Let's open it up and look at the
data a little bit more closely.
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:Okay.
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:I have that video popped up.
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:As you can see, it has
37, almost 38,000 views.
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:473, uh, watch hours.
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:It's only gotten me
$135 and 73 subscriber.
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:So although this video is getting
a lot of views, like how am
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:I really benefiting from it?
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:I've made, let's see, I guess,
how many dollars a day do I make?
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:135.
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:I make like 10 cents a day
from this video, right?
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:1 36 divided by 14, 16 days.
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:Yeah, I make 9 cents a day with
this video, um, which isn't
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:nothing, I'm grateful for it, but
like, that's not really the point.
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:Like even though this has an
unreal, uh, click through rate,
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:like this, this click through rate
is really, really high, right?
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:Like at 13%, I guess, since published.
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:When you compare it to a video
like this, how to become a data
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:analyst in 2026, like, look at this.
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:So many more subscribers, so
much more money, you know?
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:And even though our click through rate.
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:Is really low.
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:It's probably like 2% for this video.
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:Yeah, look at the
click-through rate's only 2.8%.
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:Even though the click-through rate kind
of stinks, like the overall number of
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:subscribers and revenue is way better.
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:So I don't know why it's kind
of fixed on, like the idea that.
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:Clickthrough rate is everything.
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:Now clickthrough rate's really important,
but just 'cause your clickthrough
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:rate is high doesn't mean that it's
good for you as a YouTube creator.
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:But I do kinda like the idea of
creating dedicated answer videos under
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:five minutes for optimized search.
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:That is an interesting concept.
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:India viewers have low
engagement shorts aren't working.
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:Yep.
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:Uh, either invest seriously
in short to the clear strategy
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:or stop spending time there.
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:And that's unfortunately.
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:Uh, what I've done is we
just haven't done any shorts.
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:Now, we might start doing shorts in a
little bit, but um, we'll have to see.
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:End screens only drove 2,800
views and video cards,:
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:That's a very small amount,
so yeah, you're right.
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:We don't use end screens nearly as well as
we probably should, which is unfortunate.
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:Okay, top strategic recommendations,
double down on data backed career
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:insights, AB test thumbnails.
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:We're already doing that.
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:I like this idea.
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:Create a quick answer series.
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:I like that.
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:Front load hooks in the first 30 seconds.
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:I mean, I try, but it's harder
than it, I guess, than it looks
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:and leverage your podcast.
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:More interview content
drives disproportional.
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:Watch time in the Data
Career podcast playlist.
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:Use your strongest pay, consider
promoting it more actively
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:in your recommended videos.
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:Okay.
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:Interesting.
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:Um.
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:So this is like all the analysis it did.
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:I don't even know.
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:Okay.
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:It did extract all of those ZIP files and
to get all those separate CSVs, and for
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:each one of these CSVs, it usually has the
table data, the totals and the chart data.
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:Okay.
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:It kind of like crunched a bunch of these
numbers, but I didn't give much direction.
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:And one thing I actually really wanted
to actually see is like a dashboard.
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:So I'm gonna actually ask
it to create a dashboard.
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:Can you create a dashboard that
monitors these metrics and shows me.
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:The key things that I should be looking
at as a YouTube content creator.
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:Once again, I'm leaving it pretty.
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:Open-ended in general because
I wanna see what it does.
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:I'm gonna go ahead and click go.
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:And you can see it's currently puzzling.
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:It's currently thinking it's
booping, it's gonna try to
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:create some sort of a dashboard.
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:Now, Claude Code really likes JavaScripts,
so my guess is it's going to create
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:some sort of a JavaScript dashboard.
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:Um, these JavaScript
dashboards are usually probably
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:going to be done in React.
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:React is a JavaScript library
that's really good for like.
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:Creating websites basically,
and in turn data visualizations.
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:Um, let's see what it's thinking.
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:So it's entered planning mode.
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:Whoa.
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:Okay, here's the plan.
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:I guess it already planned.
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:So it said, uh, Avery's exported
these CSVs, and this is the data.
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:We're gonna build a single
self-contained HT mal file with
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:embedded CSS and JavaScript.
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:Use chart js for the charts, parse all CSV
data and embed it directly as JavaScript
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:objects so the dashboard opens instantly
to the browser with no server needed.
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:It's gonna have KPI
cards, views over time.
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:Top 15 videos.
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:Traffic sources, audience, age,
geography, new versus returning viewers,
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:subscriber versus non-subscriber.
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:Top playlists and content
performance scatter.
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:Interesting style will be YouTube
studio inspired dark theme.
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:And, uh, okay, let's go ahead and
approve that and see how it does.
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:Now, just for reference, so most of you,
I'm assuming, don't have domain knowledge
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:of what YouTube studio looks like.
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:Um, this is kind of what YouTube
Studio looks like right now.
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:Um, it has my latest video, which was
she became a data analyst in 67 days.
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:Um, how many views that has,
what's the click through rate?
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:What's the average view duration?
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:My current subscribers, which is 65,000
and a summary of the last 28 days.
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:Um, it's not very graphics based.
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:It's not very chart based.
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:Like, I don't think there's
any charts on this page.
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:Right.
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:Um, there's like a lot of cards
with like their own like almost
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:ads for different YouTube things.
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:Um, if you go to analytics, this
one's like a little bit more of
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:what we're trying to look for.
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:Um, this is basically what would
be beating on the overview page.
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:You basically have your views
over the last 28 days, your watch
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:time, your subscribers, and your
revenue of the last 28 days.
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:You have a little realtime
counter for your subscribers and
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:your views in the last 48 hours.
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:And then you have your top content
in this period, which is interesting.
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:My, my shorts, there's a few of my
shorts who actually, that actually
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:do really well, which is interesting.
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:So this is kind of what we have to beat.
433
:Um, it's very tab based,
which I kind of don't love.
434
:It'd be nice if you could
just like customize your own
435
:version of this, I guess.
436
:It has your audience channels, your
audience watches, those types of things.
437
:So we'll see if cloud code can kind
of beat this and what it looks like.
438
:Uh, right now you can kind of see that
it's just extracting and preparing
439
:all the CSV datas for embedding.
440
:And then the next step will be
to build the H TM L dashboard
441
:and then verify dashboard
renders correctly in the browser.
442
:It's been working for about.
443
:Three minutes and it's still
thinking we'll go ahead and
444
:fast forward until Claude tells
me something more interesting.
445
:Right.
446
:Alright.
447
:I just finished the dashboard here
and, uh, it has the KPI cards and
448
:then the 10 interactive sections.
449
:It has this little preview for
me over the right hand side.
450
:I'm not.
451
:Optimistic.
452
:I don't think it's gonna look that good,
but let's go ahead and see how it looks.
453
:I'm gonna go back to my analysis
page and then I'm gonna open up
454
:the dashboard here separately.
455
:Okay.
456
:It doesn't look as bad as I thought.
457
:Lots of scrolling on the dashboard.
458
:Um, but at least it has
a lot of information.
459
:So as total views, watch hours,
subscribers gained revenue
460
:impressions, view, duration.
461
:Um, the daily views versus
the seven day moving average.
462
:Peak periods, which is interesting.
463
:Top 15 videos by views and the
revenue, the traffic source.
464
:So search is 31%.
465
:Oh wow.
466
:So 31.4
467
:versus 31.
468
:So I guess search by itself
actually is my number one source.
469
:Um, but browse and suggested I feel
like are so similar and that would be.
470
:52.
471
:Um, and I've always linked these
together, so that's interesting.
472
:Okay.
473
:Then you do see that this is the
interesting thing where my search
474
:average duration is quite low.
475
:Um, oh, and I guess this is red.
476
:'cause it's low and green if it's good.
477
:So that's interesting.
478
:So external, okay.
479
:Top country views.
480
:The age distribution for views and
watch time subscribed versus non
481
:subscribed, new versus returning users.
482
:And then CTR versus view.
483
:Each bubble equals a video.
484
:Size is the watch time,
color is the subscriber.
485
:Rate impressions, and
then click through rate.
486
:So this has a ton of impressions, a ton of
impressions, but low click through rate.
487
:But the green.
488
:Is lots of subscribers.
489
:So what is this one?
490
:This one is, Tableau is
easier than you think.
491
:Oh, it's a short, so there's
no subscribers coming from it.
492
:There's a lot of views and a decent
amount of a click through rate.
493
:Okay.
494
:Interesting.
495
:I'd almost.
496
:Remove shorts from this because they
don't really compare top playlist.
497
:This is interesting.
498
:So SQLs data analyst, this is something
I've been really interested in.
499
:This playlist is doing quite well.
500
:Uh, average due duration.
501
:So shout out to my Kenyans.
502
:It looks like you guys
watch my videos the longest.
503
:Other than us and India, why aren't
you guys watching the videos longer?
504
:Same with Indonesia and Pakistan.
505
:Come on guys.
506
:Come on.
507
:Maybe it's 'cause I talk crazy.
508
:I don't know.
509
:This dashboard is okay.
510
:I don't think it's anything amazing.
511
:I mean, obviously I didn't have to make
it and it was quick, so I appreciate that.
512
:There's not like any crazy insights in
terms of like, is it better than, than
513
:the YouTube, you know, studio mode.
514
:Probably not.
515
:There's some things I like
maybe more and some things.
516
:Uh, I don't like, I mean, I don't love
scrolling on dashboards really that often.
517
:But then the other equivalent is
you have to tab it like this, right?
518
:So are you gonna tab or
are you gonna scroll?
519
:It just, I guess, depends on how
you like your information viewed.
520
:I'd rather tab to be honest.
521
:Um, because then I can actually like
choose where I'm going to versus if I want
522
:to get to, you know, the traffic sources.
523
:I have to go by the
top 15 videos by views.
524
:So on and so forth.
525
:This isn't bad.
526
:It's not great.
527
:It's not bad.
528
:I'm actually just gonna ask Claude.
529
:I'm gonna say review the dashboard,
find the pros and cons of your
530
:data displayed and the, um, UI and
create a second better version.
531
:So I'm basically telling.
532
:Claude, you go, Hey, go look at
your dashboard, see what you did.
533
:Well see what you didn't do well,
and then recreate it based off
534
:of, you know, your findings.
535
:Um, this is something I found that's
really interesting is when you have AI
536
:grading ai, it often works better if
you give it to like a different model.
537
:Like I gave this to, you
know, chat GPT or GPT 5.2
538
:or something like that.
539
:Or Gemini or something like that,
it might do a little bit better.
540
:Um, but I'm actually interested to see how
it does, it looks like it's struggling.
541
:It's trying to open the dashboard,
uh, in Chrome and it's not working.
542
:Let's see what it's trying to do now.
543
:Okay, let's see.
544
:It's been trying to open up the dashboard
for quite a bit here and it looks like
545
:it's really struggling to, when this
sort of thing happens, it's a big red
546
:flag to me because it keeps trying to
do this and eventually it's gonna give
547
:up and it's going to just probably
guess what it looks like instead of
548
:actually knowing what it looks like.
549
:Although it should be able to like
read the HTML that it created.
550
:But I get nervous when it like starts
to do these like failures and repeat
551
:itself over and over again because
eventually it's gonna give up and
552
:it's just gonna make stuff up and I.
553
:Done this enough.
554
:I've spent hundreds of hours analyzing
data with Claude that I know eventually,
555
:uh, it will make something up.
556
:Basically, it's like, this is what I think
it looks like, and you have to be really
557
:careful because you, unless you're paying
really close attention, you can actually
558
:see what's going on in these log files.
559
:You might not notice it,
it might not tell you.
560
:So that's something I have a red flag.
561
:I'm gonna be looking really
closely to see what it says and
562
:actually make sure that it's.
563
:Talking normal versus this
is gonna make something up.
564
:Alright, so after about five minutes,
it did a full review of V one.
565
:Some of the V one, uh, cons
were three outta the seven
566
:charts are completely broke.
567
:Uh, no month over month.
568
:Trends missing, computed efficiency
metrics, no upload frequency analysis,
569
:post data completely unused, no
content category grouping, all
570
:these different things, right?
571
:Well, I mean, like it is working.
572
:We just saw the graph, right?
573
:Like all this.
574
:Stuff is working.
575
:All of this is here, so I don't
know why it thinks it's broken.
576
:The truth is it doesn't actually
see it, it doesn't actually know
577
:what's going on, is my guess.
578
:Or it's just not being rendered
correctly when it's trying to to
579
:view it, it can actually view it.
580
:And so it tried to, you know, uh,
it says it's building V two now, but
581
:it's not, it's literally stopped.
582
:So maybe I'll say, you know,
keep going and we'll see if.
583
:It actually does build version two, but
at this point I'm not super optimistic.
584
:We'll, we'll see how it does.
585
:Okay.
586
:After some coaxing, I think it got
this new version of dashboard two here.
587
:Let's see how it looks.
588
:Okay.
589
:Oh, and look, it did go to a tabbing.
590
:Oh, it's both tabbing.
591
:Wow.
592
:It's like it was listening
to our conversation.
593
:I was like, I like tabs
more, and I added tabs.
594
:This is interesting.
595
:Uh, this is like the
number of views on a day.
596
:I don't get why this is here.
597
:That's interesting.
598
:Um, let's see.
599
:Subscriber efficiency per 1000 views.
600
:Oh see this is actually interesting.
601
:So this, this is normalizing it by views.
602
:So what video brought in the most
subscribers per:
603
:And that's really
interesting because like.
604
:Yeah, you know, something like
this one, I analyze this many jobs.
605
:Like this is getting 37.
606
:Let's see, it says, oh yeah,
subscribers per:
607
:See, that's interesting.
608
:I think this is like the most
interesting graph it's created so far.
609
:Um, let's see here.
610
:This one's interesting.
611
:Watch time, duration by source.
612
:Um, and then this is the average
duration and this is the watch time.
613
:I don't think that's
very useful comparison.
614
:Um, yeah.
615
:Here's my funnel.
616
:I guess this is the number of impressions.
617
:This is the number of views.
618
:This is watch greater than one minute.
619
:This is the subscribers.
620
:That's kinda interesting.
621
:I like that idea.
622
:This is views versus average duration.
623
:I don't know.
624
:Okay.
625
:Overall, like this is, this is just fine.
626
:I think this is nothing
amazing, nothing terrible.
627
:What I think where it
gets really powerful.
628
:Is where instead of me just saying,
analyze this, where me as like a
629
:data analyst, me as a domain expert
come in and be like, I have things
630
:that I actually want you to look at.
631
:I have my brain, I know it's important.
632
:Help me to do the actual
dirty work of the analysis.
633
:So for example, um, one thing that I
think is, is really powerful or would
634
:be really interesting to see also what
monthly heat map grid 12 monthly cells.
635
:I don't even see where that's at.
636
:Did you guys see a heat map?
637
:Am I blind?
638
:Uh, is it like in the old version?
639
:If I refresh the old version,
I don't see it there either.
640
:So I'm actually gonna call
Claude out real quick for that.
641
:I'm gonna say, um, where,
where is the monthly heat map?
642
:Oh, it's calling.
643
:Oh, okay.
644
:It's calling this thing a heat map, which
it's hardly a heat map, but that's fine.
645
:Uh, it's calling.
646
:This a heat map.
647
:I mean, that's a terrible
heat map if I'm being honest.
648
:So one thing I think would be really
powerful or be interesting actually
649
:for me to see as someone who's, you
know, invested in this data set is
650
:something like it tried to make with
this, uh, bubble chart right here.
651
:I really like bubble charts 'cause it
can show you a lot of variables at once.
652
:Uh, but I don't think this is quite what
I want in terms of the bubble chart.
653
:So I'm actually just gonna say,
I'm actually just gonna tell
654
:Claude what I'd like to see.
655
:Please make just a standalone bubble chart
of the click-through rate on the x axis.
656
:The views on the Y axis where each circle
is equal to a video, the size is equal
657
:to the number of new subscribers, and
the color is the percentage of those
658
:viewers that came by the search traffic.
659
:This way, I'm able to see the click
through rate, the views, the number of
660
:new subscribers, and the percentage.
661
:Coming from search all in one place,
and that'll let me see outliers
662
:a little bit better visually.
663
:Um, because for me data is really hard
to understand unless I can visually
664
:see it and visually understanding
it, uh, makes it really helpful.
665
:Okay.
666
:Traffic source data is only available at
the channel level by date, not per video.
667
:Hmm.
668
:That's interesting.
669
:Didn't earlier, didn't you tell
me, Claude, that there was a video?
670
:I guess it's by aggregate.
671
:So it turns out that even though on
YouTube studio, you can see how viewers
672
:found this video and see that search
was, you know, 60%, that that is not
673
:available in the dataset that we have.
674
:There is, that is not included
in the export in YouTube studio.
675
:So in order to get that data, we'd
have to like take a screenshot,
676
:uh, or, or jot down these numbers
right here, or use the YouTube API
677
:and that's for a another video.
678
:So we're not gonna do that today.
679
:So instead we're gonna just go ahead and
kind of create a similar bubble chart.
680
:Um, but instead of the color
being the percent of search.
681
:Will make it the view time,
the average view duration.
682
:So it's really not that much different
than this chart, to be perfectly honest.
683
:I would've liked to have
been a little bit different.
684
:Um, but I guess we
didn't give it the data.
685
:However, I did notice on the first version
right here, it gave like this little
686
:optimization down here where you have
high impressions, low CTR, which basically
687
:it says thumbnails and tidal problem.
688
:Top left quadrant.
689
:While high impressions,
low CTR are down here.
690
:It's not the top left quadrant right here
and it, but that does mean that there I
691
:could improve the title and thumbnail.
692
:So I just got the quadrant area wrong.
693
:High CTR, low views.
694
:Well, we don't have views on
this chart anywhere actually.
695
:So high CTR, low views.
696
:It doesn't even make sense.
697
:Right.
698
:It says it's the bottom right,
but that doesn't make sense.
699
:Uh, videos in the top right
are your proven winners.
700
:I don't have any with high
impressions and high clickthroughs,
701
:so I have no winners, I guess.
702
:Uh, anyways, let's go ahead and
say, okay, instead of doing the
703
:percent by search traffic, make
it the average video duration.
704
:Also, please exclude.
705
:All shorts, or I guess rather
make two separate charts, one for
706
:shorts and one for longer videos.
707
:Because previously it
had put those together.
708
:Right.
709
:And that's where you, I mean,
this is a short right here.
710
:This is a short right here.
711
:And this is a short right here.
712
:So basically all of the red.
713
:Uh, dots on this page were shorts, so
it doesn't really make sense to have,
714
:you know, shorts and long videos on the
same page because they're quite different
715
:products and quite different audiences and
quite different purposes, to be honest.
716
:Okay, I'm gonna hit allow and
let's see what it creates here.
717
:So finally, after about seven
minutes, uh, I think it finished.
718
:Um, I did notice there was
a few funny things going on.
719
:Like for instance, there
was some issues with the.
720
:Number of data we were trying to look at.
721
:It looks like, like in terms of context
windows, that makes me a little bit
722
:nervous and it was having a hard
time actually screenshotting them.
723
:Um, because there is a lot of, uh,
different, uh, bubbles going on, a
724
:lot of different data being displayed.
725
:Um, let's see how it went.
726
:Okay, so here is our click through versus
bubble chart, and we have it for shorts
727
:and we have it for long form views.
728
:So.
729
:Um, this is interesting to me.
730
:Um, you obviously have like, almost,
uh, I forgot the, what this is
731
:called, but like this like shape
where it's like l almost, right,
732
:which just goes down and then, right.
733
:And then it looks like we just
have some huge outliers and shorts.
734
:Um, this interest, this is
interesting to me 'cause now.
735
:I can like, interpret this data.
736
:In fact, let me ask Claude
how it interprets this data.
737
:Um, okay.
738
:How do you interpret this data?
739
:What action should I take?
740
:Uh, we'll see what it says
while I, I give you my thoughts.
741
:So what, what is the size of the
bubble that's number of subs?
742
:So even though, like I was saying
earlier, even though these, these
743
:have huge click through, right?
744
:They have low subs, um, this one's
the closest one, so data analyst,
745
:mock interview, we're still getting
a decent amount of subscribers, but
746
:not even really then we're, we don't
get meaningful number of subscribers
747
:till about this video right here.
748
:Um, and then these are obviously where the
subscribers are, are quite substantial.
749
:Uh, the color is the video duration.
750
:Um, I don't think I asked
for the that, did I?
751
:If I did, I didn't mean
to, what did I say up here?
752
:I said that the, oh yeah.
753
:I make it the average video duration.
754
:I meant a VD uh, wait, that is.
755
:Average view, duration,
not video duration.
756
:Ah, that's my fault for, for
saying that, but eh, okay.
757
:So this video right
here, this is 45 minutes.
758
:Okay.
759
:Yeah, that makes sense.
760
:Okay.
761
:So, um, let's see.
762
:So the color's basically meaningless.
763
:I mean, I guess we can say that
the, the interviews, which are
764
:usually the longer videos, um.
765
:Don't get a ton of views.
766
:I guess that's one thing we can look
at it and none of them get a particular
767
:large amount of sub subscribers.
768
:Okay.
769
:Um, let's look at shorts.
770
:So we have Tableau, remote Data,
job, Tableau, Harvard Saturated data
771
:sets, Google Analytics certificate.
772
:And what's the difference between these?
773
:Okay.
774
:So it's almost like we have like a low
line, a little bit higher line, and then
775
:like these three outliers, uh, over here.
776
:So I think I could just basically
take anything that's above.
777
:This like bottom line and try
to make more shorts like that.
778
:That would be kind of my takeaway.
779
:And pay attention to the titles on these.
780
:Um, we're missing such a key metric.
781
:The being able to know like what
the traffic's from is so important.
782
:So we'd wanna try to get
that data for the future.
783
:But since we don't have it
right now, that's my takeaways.
784
:I would just try to make more
videos like these titles in the
785
:shorts and on this one over here.
786
:I mean, really the important thing
is anything I would say that's like.
787
:In this circle, uh, right here, we should
probably include, try to include the
788
:click through rate on most of these.
789
:See if we could improve it.
790
:Um, and on these.
791
:So that's my takeaway.
792
:Let's see what Claude says.
793
:Claude is saying, um, your
biggest videos have the worst CTR.
794
:Yeah, we've known about that.
795
:Higher CTR is good, obviously.
796
:Um, not a whole lot there.
797
:Shorts two massive outliers.
798
:We talked about that.
799
:Shorts don't convert to subscribers.
800
:We talked about that to.
801
:Yeah, I don't think this is
necessarily very meaningful, but
802
:I didn't really come up with that
much better analysis on my end.
803
:I think really, in order for me to
get really meaningful data outta this,
804
:we need to have the traffic source
involved, so hopefully that helps.
805
:You see how I personally
use Claude Code as a.
806
:Helpful tool as a data analyst,
it makes my work so much faster.
807
:Doing all this previously would've taken
me so much time to get through everything.
808
:It does a great job of
creating graphs for me.
809
:It does a great job of coming up with
some sort of suggestions or some sort
810
:of actual analysis and, uh, insights.
811
:That being said.
812
:I still need to prompt it.
813
:I still need to ask it what to do.
814
:I need to, you know, obviously be a domain
expert to try to know what all this stuff
815
:means and to ask it the right question.
816
:So I don't really foresee it
replacing any data analyst.
817
:I kind of just see it being as
the new tool for data analysts to
818
:actually use to do their analysis.
819
:But let me know what you think
in the comments down below.
820
:I appreciate you guys watching
or listening, and I'll see
821
:you in the next episode.
