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worriedshuffle t1_j62s8xu wrote

Y axis isn’t even labeled and this is called beautiful data

It’s even funnier the article lists “calculations” but even that isn’t clear how books on YouTube is calculated

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tomiwa1a t1_j6b8wnz wrote

Can you please clarify? what do you mean by it isn't clear how books on Youtube is calculated?

If you check this range you can see how we arrived at our numbers:

  1. We calculated the number of hours of video uploaded to Youtube every minute from 2007-2022 source: statista
  2. We found how many words are spoken per hour of human conversation source: virtualspeech
  3. We calculated the number of words in the average book source: jericho writers

Then we did some calcualations with those numbers to arrive at 99,338,400 books on Youtube

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worriedshuffle t1_j6bmjs3 wrote

Phenomenal calculation. You assume every minute of YouTube contains nonstop speech at the average word rate. Obviously this is false.

Second, in comparing quantity of speech you say nothing about quality. Libraries don’t contain every single book in existence. Most books are trash. YouTube does contain tons of trash.

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simonezchen OP t1_j6afztf wrote

Good point, you're right we should've labelled the y-axis. It's "Number of Books" as we calculated the numbers approximately to that unit in sheets.

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