New Circulation Modeling Results August 4, 2017August 4, 2017 rburke Leave a comment We just completed a long-awaiting transition to a database backend for the Reading Chicago Reading data. One of the big changes was the discovery that we had been using incorrect holdings data for one of our books. So, some of the modeling results are now slightly different, and the anomalous results for “Gold Boy” are now gone. This change also means that we will now be able to process circulation data for books that are not OBOC selections including the books that were chosen as CPL recommendations. We will also be able to explore some new aspects of the circulation data such as the … Read more
Presentation at Chicago City Data Users Group June 7, 2017June 7, 2017 rburke Leave a comment On May 3rd, Hyunyou Choi and Yingting Guan gave a presentation about Reading Chicago Reading at the Chicago City Data Users Group. This is a Meetup group for end users, business users, enthusiasts, students, entrepreneurs, anyone interested in how to use city data to create positive social impacts on the city. On the presentation, they explained the goals of the project, its data sources, and the data mining techniques what we used. They demonstrated an updated version of our “Exploring Circulation Data” app: This visualization allows users to select branch library, see its location … Read more
Exploring Circulation Data March 11, 2017June 7, 2017 rburke 1 Comment Thanks to the work of graduate student Hyunyou Choi, our circulation strip-chart tool has now been made interactive. This tool allows for the interactive visualization of the circulation patterns of the various “One Book, One Chicago” selections across different clusters of library branches and to highlight individual branches. See below for an example. Follow this link to try it yourself: https://hyunyouchoi.shinyapps.io/BookCirculation_HY/ … Read more
More Circulation Modeling January 9, 2017June 7, 2017 rburke 1 Comment We have new data (thanks, CPL) for the 2015 book selection “The Third Coast”. We have new circulation modeling results as well. As you can see from the smoothed daily circulation below, Third Coast has a more sustained period of circulation, probably due to the more extensive set of activities surrounding the book. … Read more