Fyi regarding cover images: I have built and run a handful of book related websites and Amazon is the easiest place I found to get book covers. You just need the Amazon id and every image is a standard url.
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#22Really cool to see my favs show up, but I honestly don't understand what we're actually looking at; the groupings seem very opaque beyond very general themes like sci-fi, startups, biographies, math, physics.
In other words, what are the clustering shapes telling us? Can we dig in based on geography, publishing date, key terms or themes?
Either way, I can't keep the site open for more than 30-40 seconds before it crashes. I suspect that's not the goal!
Is Cryptonomicon the best fiction book, or is the data wrong?
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#23This is cool.
Idea: Amazon has killed 'random' browsing of books. Would love to see this applied to topic area searches etc. so I can have the same serendipity that I used to get in all the bookstores Amazon unalived.
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#24This is cool. Idea: Amazon has killed 'random' browsing of books. Would love to see this applied to topic area searches etc. so I can have the same serendipity that I used to get in all the bookstores Amazon unalived.
Well, for fiction there is:
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#26Interesting but the visualization is useless. How about a standard tabular format maybe grouped by genre?
The 'genres' emerge out of the clusters. The fact that you can pick out 'genres' from this plot is an example of semi-supervised learning.
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#27Love this. I like that the clustering allows me to start from a book I've read and liked, and then move on the similar books in the cluster.
For example, I just finished The Phoenix Project.
I'm already seeing some related books I should take a look at.
Very useful!
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#28This is awesome. Can I please request a way to have a list or a tabular format?
I've put a title/author list on a github page here, sorted by title alphabetically
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
looks like t-SNE projection
What does each axis represent? What is the significance of the placement of each cluster?
In t-SNE, the distances in the feature vector space are preserved in the projected space. IIRC, these distances serve as boundary conditions to a stochastic diffusion problem. The actual positions and the orientation are allowed to be free variables.
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#30This is awesome. Glad to see both A Fire Upon the Deep and Deepness made it on the list!