[socialmedia] Hello social Gutenbergers

[Joshua Preston]

Good stuff. So all the data work will be predicated on Project Gutenberg
books and what data for each book is available. Having that upfront lets us
discuss the possibilities more concretely. I'm able to tackle anything of
interest, but the engine of car, as it were, is your data, and I'll need
that to get specific projects of interest up and running.

Just to give you an idea, if I did anything on Baudelaire, the core focus
is the specific ebooks Gutenberg makes available to readers (and a link to
them to encourage readership perhaps). I can compare that list to the total
works of Baudelaire by doing my own data collection from a reliable source
(wikipedia has a table of his works). That would be the framework for one
project. Within that small project we can talk about if you can make
available the number of lifetime downloads or downloads over time of
Baudelaire's work.

I hope this clarifies how we might work together.

cheers! Josh

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 6:29 AM Laura N <lnatal55 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Josh:
>
> I will let you know as soon as I know about some special
> dates/celebrations and so on.
>
> Concerning Baudelaire, there is the International Charles Baudelaire
> Society (@Baudelaire-asso & https://www.facebook.com/charlesbaudelaire.org
> ) charlesbaudelaire.org <https://t.co/7QTqMPRDIO?amp=1>. They are
> planning some special events in order to celebrate his 200y's birthday.
> They are a better source of information than Wiki.
>
> Last 7th April was the celebration of 250y of Worsdworth's birthday. The
> media are still talking about it. Perhaps you could produce something
> regarding his works.
>
> You are doing great work, keep going...
>
> Regards
>
> Laura
>
>
>
> Em qui., 11 de jun. de 2020 às 02:07, Joshua Preston <
> photopartner at gmail.com> escreveu:
>
>> 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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