Words that will inspire, a data science project on TED Talks

"Words that will Inspire" is an analysis on 2,500 TED talks using text analytics and machine learning on R to find the factors that make some talks more popular than others. What was the motivation for doing this project? I am part of a meetup group called Data Scientist speakers in London that meets regularly to practice data science talks and receive feedback to improve public speaking. Every year at the club we have a competition to see who can come with the best data science story. I joined this competition and wanted to make participate with something special: I wanted to combine my data science skills to analyse famous speeches or talks and use these insights to build an entirely new one.