Data Considerations & Intentions

My goal for this project was to skew the data as much as possible to show that traditionally "better" IDeATe Gallery projects, specifically in this class, do not fare as well. I chose this because the opposite is precisely true; those projects which are new, interesting, and informative bubble to the top of the view/applause count and fare much better, from a popularity standpoint, than others. 

Obviously, Applause means much more than Views when it comes to projects, for many reasons: users can view their own work and simply refresh the page to rack up views, while only other users can applaud at most once in a project. So I decided to completely ignore applauses, attempting to show that projects with fewer and smaller words typically did better.