[socialmedia] Hello social Gutenbergers

Sat Jun 13 05:46:48 PDT 2020

Thanks for this view on the Top 100, Joshua. My only desire would be for one or more links within Tableau that take you right to the Top 100 page (or individual pages for each eBook).

I think that posting this weekly to Twitter + Facebook would be a great service to our readers. It's a nice way of highlighting some of the more interesting readings, and likely would be shared.

For the discussion below about updates to Top 100: I confirm that the statistics are calculated every 24 hours. It's just based on the most recent download counts (as described in the page here: https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top). So, any "Top..." list is a rolling count for the past N days.

Thanks again.
  Greg

On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 10:33:40PM -0400, Joshua Preston via socialmedia wrote:
> On the top 100 page there’s a specific list for download totals over the
> last 7 days. That’s where I pulled this from.
> 
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 9:57 PM Andrew Sly <andrewpsly at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I believe all the download information on gutenberg.org is regenerated
> > every 24 hours.
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 12, 2020, 1:58 PM Joshua Preston <photopartner at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> 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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