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Exploring literary data

Shiny dashboard for exploring book-related data for popular awards, best-of lists, and authors.

Project update history

2020-03-01:

  • Added World Fantasy Award.

2019-11-21:

  • Added tab for individual prolific authors, starting with Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Alice Sheldon, R.L. Stine, and Michael Crichton.
  • Added size option for scatterplots.

2019-11-20:

  • Changed GAM spline method to have 3 basis.

2019-11-19:

  • Updated lists tab to fill out missing data.

2019-11-18:

  • Added tab for famous reading lists, starting with American Book Review, and Modern Library.

2019-11-17:

  • Added 2019 award winners to all awards except the Otherwise Award.
  • Added reactivity to scatterplots.

2019-11-16:

  • Finished initial awards dataset, starting with Pulitzer, Hugo, Nebula, and the Otherwise Awards.
  • Created toolset to automatically update statistics.
  • Created base scatterplot.

2019-11-15:

  • Updated books data workbook (.xlsx) from original 2018 dataset.

TODO list

  • Authors:
    • Iain Banks
    • Richard Brautigan
    • Don DeLillo
    • Philip K. Dick
    • William Faulkner
    • Robert Heinlein
    • Frank Herbert & Brian Herbert
    • Russell Hoban
    • Arnold Lobel
    • Terry Pratchett
    • William Shakespeare
  • Author tab filters:
    • pseudonym == 'N'
    • authorCount == 'Primary'
    • posthumous == 'N'
  • Awards:
    • BSFA Award
    • Ditmar Award
    • Ditmar Award for International Writing
    • Locus Award for SF
    • Mythopoeic Award
    • August Derleth Award
    • Campbell Award
    • World Fantasy Award
    • Locus Award for Fantasy
    • Prometheus Award
    • Locus Award for First Novel
    • PKD Award
    • Aurora Award
    • Bram Stoker Award
    • Clark Award
    • Hal Clement Award
    • Golden Duck Paperback Award
    • Eleanor Cameron Award
    • Mythopoeic Award for YA
    • Aurealis Award for YA
    • Aurealis Award for SF
    • Aurealis Award for Horror
    • Aurealis Award for Fantasy
    • Ditmar Award for Stories
    • Aurealis Award for Children's Literature
    • Locus Award for YA
    • Cybils Award for SFF YA
    • Shirley Jackson Award
    • Aurealis Award for Anthology
    • Aurealis Award for GN
    • Legend Award
    • Red Tentacle Award
    • Morningstar Award
    • Golden Tentacle Award
    • Robert Holdstock Award
  • Sub-tabs:
    • Histograms and/or density plots.
    • Boxplot.
  • Tabs:
    • Personal reading history.
    • Series -- starting with Star Wars, Star Trek, Goosebumps
    • Request form
    • About
    • Dynamic form for personal entries

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