tangaw / camera-trends

We scrape Google trend indices and annual revenues of 3 major camera brands, visualize the data, and use machine learning to predict who will dominate the camera market in the future, powered by Python and JavaScript (D3.js).

Camera Trends

Hosted at: https://badwaterbay.com/app/camera-trends/

Repository: https://github.com/BadwaterBay/camera-trends

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Our motivations

We'd like to practice our skills in Python data scraping and D3.js data visualization. We are both photography enthusiasts. We are interested in which camera brand will lead the market in the future.

Our question

Out of three major camera brands, Canon, Nikon, and Sony, which one will dominate the mirrorless market?

Methodology

We scrape Google trend indices from 2004 to 2020 as a function of time and countries and correlate them with annual revenues. We use D3.js to visualize the data. We then predict future trends with machine learning.

Results and discussion

Our final product is shown here.

Contributing to this project

If you are interested in contributing to this project, you are welcome to reach out.

To contribute to this project, we follow a rather standard approach of open-source software development, such as: https://github.com/firstcontributions/first-contributions

Contributors

https://github.com/BadwaterBay/camera-trends/graphs/contributors