[socialmedia] Hello social Gutenbergers

Fri Jun 12 13:58:22 PDT 2020

The weekly report on Top 100 book downloads. I can update this anytime the
website updates. If there's a particular day that works best for you, let
me know.

Let me know what you think. Cheers!

https://public.tableau.com/views/ProjectGutenberg-Top100ebookweeklydownloads/Dashboard1?:display_count=y&publish=yes&:origin=viz_share_link:showVizHome=no

Josh

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 10:40 PM Joshua Preston <photopartner at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hey Andrew - Thanks for the info. I saw your time-based graphics on the
> website and those work really well. I'm putting together a weekly bar chart
> that will show most downloaded authors and books each week.
>
> I'll likely have that first thing every Monday morning. Would love
> feedback, so I'll send it your way before finalizing. thx.
>
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 6:48 PM Andrew Sly <andrewpsly at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Project Gutenberg only saves downloaded records for 30 days. We don't
>> keep any older than that.
>>
>> --Andrew
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 2:13 PM Joshua Preston via socialmedia <
>> socialmedia at lists.pglaf.org> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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