Interactive maps from the ACH 2019 Conference August 5, 2019August 5, 2019 jshanahan Leave a comment Our most recent mapping experiment explored whether CPL programming influences circulation for the Chicago-themed “One Book” selections in our dataset. If so, to what degree? What correlations, if any, could be inferred when mapping CPL events and OBOC checkouts for the three Chicago-themed books, The Adventures of Augie March, Warmth of Other Suns, and The Third Coast? Our hunch was that events have a considerable impact on the number of checkouts; however, the data reveals different trends. Ana and Mihaela made useful visualizations. Because at the Pittsburgh ACH conference… Read more
Circulation modeling updates August 20, 2017October 2, 2017 rburke Leave a comment Thanks to our new student intern Bingying, we’ve done some additional cleaning of our circulation data, removing duplicate transactions, which were a small part of the data, but significant for some texts. New circulation modeling results have been posted and the GitHub archive has been updated. … Read more
Parallel Coordinates Visualization October 6, 2016October 12, 2016 jshanahan 1 Comment Tim Zhang spent some time experimenting with visualizations of the PCAs and circulation numbers for several recent One Book One Chicago choices. You can see his complete interactive visualization in the “Results” section.… Read more
What does your demographic profile say about your leisure reading habits? May 18, 2016October 10, 2016 Nandhini Gulasingam Leave a comment According to the U.S. Department of Labor American Time Use report, in 2014 women spent an average of 6 minutes or more reading for pleasure than men. People aged 75 and older recorded the most amount of time reading by far — an average 61.2─67 minutes per day. People aged 15─19 and 25─44 read the least, an average 5.4─11.4 minutes a day. In a breakdown by race, Whites reported leisure reading three and a half times more than Hispanics or Latinos. The latter spent the least amount of time reading for personal interest, 5.4 minutes on weekdays and 6 minutes on weekends. Unemployed people read three times… Read more