[HN Gopher] Top 70000 educational YouTube channels in 20 languag...
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Top 70000 educational YouTube channels in 20 languages by category
Author : askytb
Score : 183 points
Date : 2022-11-04 17:02 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (limnology.co)
(TXT) w3m dump (limnology.co)
| phyrex wrote:
| The Chinese version distinguishes simplified from traditional
| characters. It shouldn't do that.
|
| The German version is a little meh. Top categories are something
| like "howto". It seems like you used a very simple word-based
| algorithm to create the categories?
| photochemsyn wrote:
| Great resource, found a lot of interesting videos already.
|
| One suggestion is to include video length in the individual video
| display, as most of the very short videos aren't that useful.
| truly wrote:
| This is great and very useful to me!
|
| What source are you getting the channels from?
|
| And how do you choose which channel goes in?
| blinding-streak wrote:
| Great idea. Bookmarked. Thanks for building and sharing it.
| proee wrote:
| This is _exactly_ how I wish YouTube allowed me to browse for
| videos! Great resource. Does anyone on HN have additional
| resources that allow for content discovery?
| conzept wrote:
| I'm creating an encyclopedia based on Wikipedia, Wikidata,
| YouTube and many other sources of information. For each of the
| millions of topics in a language-wiki, the software renders a
| "topic card" with thematic sections, each containing links to
| other content. Link: https://conze.pt
| nileshtrivedi wrote:
| My own attempt https://learnawesome.org/ (repo:
| https://github.com/learn-awesome/learndb )
| ElijahLynn wrote:
| TKT Talk under English > Music here,
| https://limnology.co/en/languages/en/keywords/music, is not in
| English.
|
| Not sure how to report an incorrect listing on your site, would
| be good to better surface how to do that.
| askytb wrote:
| I'll add a report button, it definitely needs it. All of that
| data is from the the youtube channels themselves and _a lot_ of
| them mislabel things, even such basic ones as their channel's
| language.
| ElijahLynn wrote:
| Thanks!
| rajeshp1986 wrote:
| This is pretty awesome. One small feedback, I noticed how there
| are multiple tags indicating same kind of content. for ex -
| "Mathematics" and "math". Combining these would be useful.
| gingerlime wrote:
| Looks cool! curious how you sourced and tagged the channels?
|
| We have a few popular anatomy channels in different languages[0],
| but I couldn't find any of our videos when searching for
| "anatomy" and also results were quite mixed. Some videos were
| quite unrelated or very loosely related at best.
|
| [0] main one in English
| https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHn_K1zOBYZqtmIYkXLEIQw
| askytb wrote:
| It's in the database:
| https://limnology.co/en/creators/UCHn_K1zOBYZqtmIYkXLEIQw
|
| And on the second page for the anatomy keyword
| https://limnology.co/en/languages/en/keywords/anatomy?page=2
|
| I think it got somewhat downranked because of the recent
| views/subscribers mismatch
| spaniard89277 wrote:
| This is good:
| https://limnology.co/es/creators/UCjtUS7-SZTi6pXjUbzGHQCg
|
| It would be cool to be able to find similar channels in other
| languages, but I can see how that would be challenging.
| askytb wrote:
| Yeah, that is something I'd love to implement but so far could
| not figure it out, even simply interlinking the keywords across
| 20 different languages is very non-trivial
| shirononon_ wrote:
| AI has already digitized these videos a countless number of times
| why are we slow to implement this as an algorithm into the
| genetic code of a fish which we may then stick into our ear to
| perform any spoken translation to us.
|
| We will probably have similar for eyeballs one day but they may
| be more invasive.
| repple wrote:
| Thanks so much! Appreciate you doing this.
| kosmet wrote:
| I think this list shows that how overwhelming the amount of
| resources to learn but we have so limited time. I think Duolingo
| style learning paths are way to go because we need to minimize
| the time to learn something. These kind of dumps are of no use
| except for bookmarking and feeling good.
| vitorsr wrote:
| I had the opposite reaction. I think this list shows what is
| passable as educational nowadays. I would personally be very
| cautious to consider anything included as edutainment, never
| mind educational.
|
| I took some time to peruse the list after topics for which I
| took formal education and could not find a single useful
| channel.
|
| The only very few exceptions to the rule are MIT OCW kind of
| channels where universities include playlists with footage of
| undergraduate courses.
| frozencell wrote:
| Can you get a job watching 1000 hours of YouTube?
| kosmet wrote:
| Good point. Learning mostly occurs during the active parts
| where no YouTube video can provide. I think that's why
| universities will live a lot longer than people think.
| okdood64 wrote:
| As a YouTube addict, this is one of the greatest things I've ever
| seen. Thank you!
| beefman wrote:
| Under English, you have both "diy" and "do it yourself", as well
| as "english" and "learn english".
| trts wrote:
| Amazing headline. It reminds me about a joke from a Futurama
| episode, from the late 90s, while Fry is channel surfing
| intergalactic cable, "Sheesh... 40,000 channels and only 150 of
| them have anything good on."
| mym1990 wrote:
| If 10,000 people say this but there is little overlap in the
| channel preferences, suddenly 40,000 channels seems a
| reasonable number. Point being that there are a wide ranging
| number of interests, just because it isn't in your niche,
| doesn't mean it shouldn't be there at all.
| sangupta wrote:
| Site seems down for me, and isup.me.
| robot wrote:
| this is very useful, the first video I hit was a very educational
| one with no fluff.
| fudged71 wrote:
| Ok now create a vector space of similarity between videos in each
| category and extract the key points from each video into a
| summary of each category.
| adhoc_slime wrote:
| This is alright, I like the category breakdown, it makes browsing
| great, but its still subject to what _youtube_ considers good
| content. Which just results in the top content being short-form
| videos which provide quick-facts, not something I can actually
| learn with. Not necessarily a bad thing for different categories
| or if that is what you're seeking in the category but a
| consequential factor for someone seeking something outside the
| advertiser-friendly, profit maximizing algorithms.
|
| I just love things the variety of things that fall outside the
| google-ads algos its so easy to silo our "content" from platforms
| like this. I browse marginalia [0] just to spice it up and see
| what else there is out there.
|
| [0] https://search.marginalia.nu/
| jasode wrote:
| _> Which just results in the top content being short-form
| videos which provide quick-facts, not something I can actually
| learn with._
|
| Youtube also has tons of long-form 1+ hours content. There's a
| recent machine learning video that's _25+ hours_ long and it 's
| not hidden away in obscurity. It's prominently listed on the
| 1st page of search results for _" deep learning tutorial"_ :
| https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=deep+learning+t...
|
| As another example, I got a friend exposed to sewing channels
| on Youtube. Some content creators create hour-long "sew alongs"
| which she watches every week now to learn new techniques. It
| fills in a gap left behind by Public Television since they
| don't air sewing shows anymore.
|
| Lots of long-form videos in car repairs, woodworking, etc.
|
| EDIT ADD: the 25-hour deep learning video example is this one:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_ikDlimN6A
|
| ... which was also copied to freeCodeCamp.org channel (the 12th
| recently uploaded video) :
|
| https://www.youtube.com/c/Freecodecamp/videos
| kencausey wrote:
| >Youtube also has tons of long-form 1+ hours content. There's
| a recent machine learning video that's 25+ hours long and
| it's not hidden away in obscurity. It's prominently listed on
| the 1st page of search results for "deep learning tutorial" :
| https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=deep+learning+t.
| ..
|
| I would be careful with statements like this. I believe that
| the Youtube search results are tuned by your personal viewing
| history, and of course just on a general basis the results
| are subject to change. I don't see the video you are talking
| about when I do that search, but then I don't know what you
| mean by 'on the 1st page' since it is an infinite scroll.
| askytb wrote:
| Try digging deeper into the "Related Keywords" cloud at the
| top, the narrower is the keyword you pick, the more long-form &
| technical and the less pop-channell-y stuff you'll see.
| ppjim wrote:
| Thanks
| worik wrote:
| I am outraged that the "English" option has the USA flag!
|
| It should be the St. George's cross, or at the very least (and
| most practically) the Union Jack.
| penguin_booze wrote:
| Look at me. I'm the captain now.
| bigyikes wrote:
| It makes sense if you go by size of English-speaking
| population.
|
| ...but then it might be replaced by an Indian or Nigerian flag
| in a few decades :)
| nanook wrote:
| I find it hilarious that "Indian English" is a separate category
| askytb wrote:
| I had to split it because the sheer size of Indian audiences
| breaks all the metrics, and yet those videos would not be super
| relevant in the west as a very large percentage of the Indian
| educational youtube consists of various kinds of local
| exam/test preparation channels
| rpastuszak wrote:
| Why?
|
| IIRC Indian English has almost 250m speakers, which is in the
| same ballpark as what we'd call American English and has its
| own, distinct features as much as AmE vs. BrE.
|
| Edit: added context
| hansel_der wrote:
| seems like you are both right
| visarga wrote:
| Many of the channels are stale, latest video from one or more
| years ago.
| allarm wrote:
| I don't think it's a problem unless it's about some cutting
| edge technology.
| punnerud wrote:
| Where are all the Rust videos? Python on top:
| https://limnology.co/en/languages/en/keywords/programming
| [deleted]
| elil17 wrote:
| Idea is great but there is a lot of overlap between the tags,
| e.g. there are six pages of tags for Chinese but half of them are
| all variants on the same tech topics (e.g. there is a separate
| tag for Ping Guo , Shou Ji , Dian Nao , and "apple watch").
| samstave wrote:
| YT is absolute garbage... we should call out the ACTUAL people
| responsible for just how terrible their UX is.
|
| If anyone is hiring and someone says they did UX at YT - do not
| hire them.
| johndfsgdgdfg wrote:
| Thank you for posting this. Moreover Google is a spyware
| company that holds users hostages for money. I wish Twitch can
| replace Youtube someday.
| samstave wrote:
| Yeah, I wasnt calling out YT content - specifically calling
| out the platform team internally...
| agilob wrote:
| >anyone is hiring and someone says they did UX at YT - do not
| hire them.
|
| Unless you and your business care more about monies than what
| people say on social media, and your company is suddenly making
| more money then... I guess hire them?
| fazfq wrote:
| Very cool. Would it be possible to separate South American
| Spanish from Spanish... Spanish?
| yuy910616 wrote:
| This is actually pretty awesome! I think the ranking algo is
| doing a pretty good job. I checked a few categories I follow
| closely, and the top results match pretty well with how I would
| personally rank them. And now I'm off to explore other topics.
| Thanks!
| enumjorge wrote:
| This is a great resource. One thing to watch out for if you're
| using this to practice listening skills in a foreign language, is
| that not all regions seem to be tagged correctly. I clicked on
| Spanish, then the Mexico tag, and the top video was of someone
| with a Spanish accent rather than a Mexican or Latin American
| one.
| tkk23 wrote:
| How difficult is it to collect user feedback to improve the
| categorization?
| grammers wrote:
| Now I'm busy. Thanks for sharing!
| patrickdavey wrote:
| Awesome - wish it had Dutch!
| dang wrote:
| This isn't eligible for Show HN - please see
| https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html - so I've taken that out
| of the title now.
| askytb wrote:
| Because it's a "list"? I don't think that's correct, there's
| ballpark 200k different pages with unique content in that app,
| that's a lot more than just a list.
| throw_m239339 wrote:
| Looks cool, how is it curated? Manually or with an algorithm?
| elcapitan wrote:
| This is great, two suggestions:
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| - search box on every sub page
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| - allow for reverse search of channels I know (so I can check out
| similar channels)
| askytb wrote:
| Thanks! Search box has been requested multiple times, so will
| implement, and reverse search is already possible here:
| https://limnology.co/en/channels
| elcapitan wrote:
| Ah, no idea how I missed that, thanks!
| derekja wrote:
| This is great! Thanks!
| zelphirkalt wrote:
| This is missing something critical: It shows tags, but does not
| allow to use them like tags. Instead it only allows to use them
| as categories. One should be able to narrow down results by
| clicking multiple tags.
| askytb wrote:
| I did think about it, but my concern was that because I only
| take a small subset of top keywords for each channel, it's very
| easy to create a combination of tags that'll show no results.
| I'll play around with it and see if it makes sense to
| implement.
| orsenthil wrote:
| What is the point of 70000 educational channels for an
| individual?
| znpy wrote:
| You can pick the one you like in your languay
| spapas82 wrote:
| Can you also add greek? I'm always on the look for good content
| for my children but can't find much in my language :(
| askytb wrote:
| Unfortunately all the other languages have too few results, I
| just checked and Greek only has 0.7% as many channels as
| English in the db, so it'd only be a few pages of content
| elkos wrote:
| I second that "astronio" is pretty good.
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