I was curious to see if the last few months of this year dominated the pattern of Oct – December being the most popular months in the data set as potentially due to the record breaking highs of bitcoin valuation in the exchange marketplace, as well as the penultimate weeks leading up to the launch of the first bitcoin options in the United States
To do that, I filtered the DATE column on the month greater than 9 (greater than September) and produced a count. Then by copying only the year and headline column, we can see that the majority of the articles from this subset were published in 2017. Suggesting that perhaps the latest activity and interest in the currency is at an all time “high” in the popular non-financial press.