The portal interface structure of Youtube is a list of ordered videos with specific criteria such as the ‘most viewed today’ or ‘most comments of this week’. However, every video contains a lot of statistic information such as how many views, which category it belongs or how many comments.
We can’t get a whole picture of this information between videos, not to mention understanding trends or activities, for example, what is the issue most of the people care about now in the context of the Youtube community.
Youtube Statistics: Interactive Interface
We attempted to provide an interface with an interactive statistics chart for users to understand the activities inside the Youtube community. Users can choose three criteria to filter the data: time, search type and category.
In the chart, each bar height represents view counts, every bar is color coded by category and the bar can be sorted by view counts or grouped by category to see the percentage of people watching videos in this category.