Interesting starting points for this project included using text-based data instead of numeric data, and representing it as an old media form (a paper), although the data is from a new media platform, the YouTube.com website.
We stored data from the website for one week, and were able to analyze a portion of each of the main categories, the most viewed, and people's comments about particular videos during the period. We mainly used Python Beautiful Soup software for this project to store as well as other tools such as MySQL and R to analyze the stored data.