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Exploring Goodreads data: Analysis of 10M books

by ammar_x on 8/13/24, 4:59 PM with 2 comments

• by Suppafly on 8/13/24, 8:45 PM

  > I wanted to analyze books, not editions, so I selected one edition for each book. I ended up with around 9 million unique books.

  How did you select which was the true book? In some cases it appears that you picked the non-english language version of a book where the english language version would have been the more widely read one.