monomest/sports-anime

Examining the impact of the sports anime Yuri on Ice on national and global interest on ice skating.

Did "Yuri on Ice" spark a national interest in ice skating?

Examining the impact of the sports anime Yuri on Ice on national and global interest on ice skating. The original run of the anime lasted from October 6, 2016 – December 21, 2016.

Includes:

• An Event Study on the impact of Yuri on Ice on ice skating interest
• XGBoost model to predict interest in ice skating over time
• Data extraction of Google Trends data for "Ice skating" and "Yuri on Ice"
• Data extraction of Ice Skating olympics dates from Wikipedia

Work in progress:

MODELLING

• Quantify predictive errors before and after the anime, to show effect of Yuri on ice skating
• Clean up code so I can easily run by country, or globally
• Get results for globally, and every country, and save to pickle files
• Add yuri_interest_level as a feature, and see how that impacts the model
• Decomposition https://machinelearningmastery.com/decompose-time-series-data-trend-seasonality/

VISUALISATION:

• Graphs
• Tableau

Links:

• https://theeffectbook.net/ch-EventStudies.html