Circulation Model Updated for 2016 Season

Our multi-level model for One Book circulation has been updated to include data for the 2016 OBOC season, Barbara Kingsolver’s “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle”. Interestingly, as a non-fiction work, the book proves to be very similar in its circulation pattern to two fictional works: “The Adventures of Augie March” and “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay”.

The second (tan) bars in each group below (marked AV) reflects the interaction between the AV circulation and three demographic components. Augie March is orange; Kavalier and Clay,… Read more

Advanced Computing Support Grant

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) announced this week that the Reading Chicago Reading project was awarded one of their Advanced Computing Support grants this year. See the press release here. The award will enable us to get assistance from the support staff at the HTRC for expanding our computational analysis of the texts used in “One Book, One Chicago” and also other related and recommended books identified by library staff. The use of the HathiTrust digital library is essential to this phase of our research because it is more or less the only means of performing text processing… Read more

GitHub repository

The code underlying our analyses of the Reading Chicago Reading data is now available on GitHub:

https://github.com/rburke2233/rcr-analysis

We hope this will be useful as inspiration, since reproducing the analyses requires access to the original circulation data, which we are not able to distribute at this point.

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