📚Guest post on great example of book abandonment at GoodReads
An excellent new article from Gwern on analyzing abandoned (hard to finish, hard to read) books on Goodreads. This write up includes step by step instructions with source code, even the way he parsed the data from the website without an API.
It’s a shame analysis like this does not come from an online book subscription service like Bookmate or MyBook. They have vastly superior datasets and many able data scientists. I am quite sure amazon kindle team does prepare internal reports like that for some evil business purposes, but that’s a whole different story.
During my time at video game database company RAWG.io we’ve compiled ‘most abandoned’ and ‘most addictive’ reports for video games.
Do you make a popular service with valuable user behavior data? Funny data analysis reports are a good way to get some attention to your product. Take a lead from Pornhub, they are great at publicizing their data.
Link: https://www.gwern.net/GoodReads
Pornhub Insights: https://www.pornhub.com/insights/
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This is a guest post by Samat Galimov, who writes about technology, programming and management in Russian on @ctodaily.
#DataAnalysis #GoodReads #statistics #greatstats #talkingnumbers
An excellent new article from Gwern on analyzing abandoned (hard to finish, hard to read) books on Goodreads. This write up includes step by step instructions with source code, even the way he parsed the data from the website without an API.
It’s a shame analysis like this does not come from an online book subscription service like Bookmate or MyBook. They have vastly superior datasets and many able data scientists. I am quite sure amazon kindle team does prepare internal reports like that for some evil business purposes, but that’s a whole different story.
During my time at video game database company RAWG.io we’ve compiled ‘most abandoned’ and ‘most addictive’ reports for video games.
Do you make a popular service with valuable user behavior data? Funny data analysis reports are a good way to get some attention to your product. Take a lead from Pornhub, they are great at publicizing their data.
Link: https://www.gwern.net/GoodReads
Pornhub Insights: https://www.pornhub.com/insights/
—
This is a guest post by Samat Galimov, who writes about technology, programming and management in Russian on @ctodaily.
#DataAnalysis #GoodReads #statistics #greatstats #talkingnumbers
gwern.net
The Most ‘Abandoned’ Books on GoodReads
Which books on GoodReads are most difficult to finish? Estimating
proportions in December 2019 gives an entirely different result than
absolute counts.
proportions in December 2019 gives an entirely different result than
absolute counts.