kdutkowski / facebook-popularity-prediction

Predict future popularity of a video on facebook using linear regression.

Facebook Popularity Prediction

The R script performs linear regression on number of views of a video in first 24h to predict the number of views after 168h.

To run the script

Open popularityPrediction.R in R Studio and run parts of it.

PDF generation

To make reading of results easier, there's a Sweave document with a report about what's been done in the script. It contains copied pieces of the script.

To generate PDF, make sure you have pdflatex installed and then run make, the PDF will be generated in output/.