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