[socialmedia] Hello social Gutenbergers

[Joshua Preston]

Hey Laura - thanks for the welcome. I like the brainstorming already!  As
to your question, no one likes the answer "it depends" but that's the
answer, and it depends on....the data. If you have sufficient data and it's
structured, I can do a basic chart in a few hours. Something more creative
and design intensive usually takes a week or two, depending on scale.

If there's something measurable and the data can be easily structured in a
table (csv or excel) then that's when the magic can come to life for the
visual data story.

e.g. Baudelaire has a wikipedia page with all his works with publishing
year included. We can use that as a jumping off point, but the question
becomes, what do we measure? His downloads and available works on
Gutenberg? That's a solid start, but can we go further and make it really
creative? Greg and I talked about keeping things lightweight on both ends
(mine and Gutenbergs), but if the data is there, the possibilities are
numerous.

As a passion project, I just completed this look at the 2019 Watchmen
sequel. Love that story and I went in search of something to really let
people dig into. This took about a month working on it on and off.

Enjoy!

https://public.tableau.com/views/watchmenwomen/Dashboard2?:display_count=y&:origin=viz_share_link:showVizHome=no

Josh

On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 12:05 PM Laura N <lnatal55 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Welcome to our team Joshua!!
>
> In fact, there are always some celebrations coming up. How long does it
> take you to make these interactive graphics?
>
> For instance, there will be a 200y celebration of Baudelaire's birthday in
> April 2021. I know it is quite ahead but it's just an example.
>
> Regards
>
> Laura
>
> Em seg., 8 de jun. de 2020 às 16:40, Joshua Preston via socialmedia <
> socialmedia at lists.pglaf.org> escreveu:
>
>> *Intro to social media team: *Love the work you're doing at Project
>> Gutenberg. As a fan, I'm creating interactive graphics to showcase books on
>> Project Gutenberg. I'd love to, when possible, promote particular authors,
>> works, celebrations (e.g. women authors in sci-fi), etc. through
>> interactive graphics.
>>
>> If you have something important or new you'd like to promote, and there's
>> data I can work with on the website, I can look at creating something. I'll
>> keep tagging Project Gutenberg in my Tweets (through @reignbooks
>> account) and engage with the team when appropriate and based on your
>> interest. Thanks a bunch.
>>
>> *Josh Preston*
>> *678.231.0787*
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