BitcoinUses

A big data analytics project on how bitcoins have been used since their launch in 2009

See the website at qdm12.github.io/BitcoinUses/results

Results

Refer to results/ for website access and more information

Data sources

• Bitcoin blockchain
• Reddit
• CoinMap

Bitcoin blockchain

Ingest the data

Refer to blockchain/readme, section 1

Profiling the data

Refer to blockchain/profiling/readme

Analyzing the data

Refer to blockchain/analysis/readme

CoinMap

Ingest the data

Profiling the data

Analyzing the data

Reddit

Ingest the data

• Done with the Python script at reddit/scrapping/reddit_import.py
• Uses the Reddit API
• Gets the following data:
  • Title of posts containing the keyword bitcoin
  • The date of the post
  • The score of the post
  • The number of comments of the post
  • The textual content of comments of the post
• This raw data is at reddit/scrapping/

Profiling the data

• The data is cleaned and then profiled

Analyzing the data