Data Collection

Repeatable workflows for importing YouTube analytics, subtitles, chat logs, public media, and other source data.

Build a Reliable Starting Point

Useful data is often spread across platform exports, APIs, subtitle files, chat logs, spreadsheets, and public websites. Before that information can support a report or analysis, it needs to be collected, standardized, checked, and organized.

Sun Data Analytics, LLC builds repeatable workflows that move information from its original source into cleaner, analysis-ready tables.

These workflows can support a one-time project or become part of a reporting system that is refreshed on a recurring schedule.

Note

A collection workflow can stand on its own or connect directly to an automated report, dashboard, classification system, or mixed-methods analysis.

Primary Data Workflows

Different sources require different collection methods, but the goal is consistent: create dependable data that can be refreshed, inspected, and connected to later analysis. These are examples of repeatable import and preparation workflows, not separate one-off services.

Creator analytics

YouTube and Creator Platform Data

YouTube data can describe both the content a creator publishes and how that content performs over time. Sun Data Analytics can organize data from platform exports, authenticated analytics sources, public APIs, and existing creator records.

Metadata Performance Audience Revenue Growth Custom labels

These sources can be combined into stable video-level, channel-level, or time-based tables for reporting and comparison.

Example Creator Data Structure

Content

Titles, dates, tags, categories, durations.

Performance

Views, watch time, impressions, click-through rate.

Audience

Age, geography, devices, subscriber status.

Revenue and Growth

Estimated revenue, revenue sources, subscriber changes.

Stream text

Subtitles, Transcripts, and Chat Logs

Performance metrics can show how a video or stream performed, but they do not describe everything that happened inside the content.

Subtitles Transcripts Chat logs Speaker labels Timestamps Coding fields

This makes it possible to connect platform performance with the subjects, interactions, and audience responses found inside the content itself.

Stream Text Timeline
00:00 Introduction
03:18 Topic discussion

Host Main segment

Analysis segment
11:05 Audience question

Chat marker Audience question aligned to transcript time.

timestamp aligned source labeled coding ready

Media monitoring

Public Web and Media Monitoring

Source-specific public collection can support research, trend monitoring, and media analysis where collection is technically and ethically appropriate.

Examples include: articles, publication dates, authors, publishers, topics, named entities.

Public sources Standardized records Monitoring dataset

Research files

Surveys, Research Text, and Internal Files

Not every project begins with an API. Many begin with spreadsheets, survey exports, transcripts, manually maintained records, or files created by several different people.

Examples include: survey cleanup, transcripts, field definitions, duplicate checks, date cleanup, reshaping.

Inconsistent files Clean source table

What Happens During Collection

  1. 01

    Import

    Bring source materials together.

  2. 02

    Standardize

    Align fields, dates, and identifiers.

  3. 03

    Validate

    Check duplicates and gaps.

  4. 04

    Document

    Record sources and assumptions.

  5. 05

    Refresh

    Prepare for future updates.

Typical Outputs

Prepared Data

Analysis-Ready Tables

Clean tables organized around the useful unit of analysis.

Reusable Logic

Import Scripts

Documented R, Python, API, or file-processing workflows.

Shared Context

Source and Field Documentation

Definitions, source notes, transformation rules, and limitations.

Next Update

Refreshable Data Stores

Stable structures and update processes for recurring work.

Explore Automated Reporting

See how recurring reports can turn refreshed source data into repeatable analysis outputs.

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Explore Unified Methods

See how performance data, text classification, and qualitative interpretation can work together.

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