Predicting Popularity of Online Content

This is a post based on the talk given at Warsaw Data Science Meetup on April 12th 2016. It's difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. Nowadays, whenever we hear about a recent breakthrough in science, technology or business, it is more than likely that the so-called'big-data' is part of the success. Whether it's a new medical algorithm to discover early stages of cancer or a new method for reducing traffic in big cities, massive amounts of digital data are very often a'secret ingredient'. As a matter of fact, everyone of us has probably heard at least a couple of the estimates on how much data human mankind creates every second, every minute or every hour.