Made an account just to comment on this. Look incredible.
A visual book recommender
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#22Impressive Tool.
I would love to have the same for movies.
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#23> Only include reviews which came from users who had at least 10 reviews.
Not sure if that's a good idea. It shrinks the set of genuine readers and overweights the set of professional spammers.
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#24This is great. I think visual tools like this are under utilized. They’re fun to use and can often reveal interesting insights.
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#25For post-t-SNE processing to get non-overlapping items, see also: https://github.com/Quasimondo/RasterFairy
I also used more crude algorithms that sort by X, group elements in buckets, and within each, sort by Y. Then we get a grid of elements. The result is less high-quality than with iterative algorithms (and depends on if we sort by X or Y first), but it is hard to beat its simplicity.
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#26Id love to have https://same.energy for book contents.
woah, didn't know about this site! it is super cool!
It feels like what Pinterest would be without the annoying bits.
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#27The visualizations remind me of those in a paper I co-authored a while ago (2009) visualizing ~2400 scientific journal / ~5.7M full-text articles: "Semantic Journal Mapping for Search Visualization in a Large Scale Article Digital Library" https://nrc-publications.canada.ca/eng/view/accepted/?id=63e...
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#28I also like https://shepherd.com/ . One of its interesting features is that authors list their five favorite books and say why they like them.
Which reminds me of https://fivebooks.com/ , where people from a particular field are asked their top five book recommendations for a given theme. The interview format is great, and I've picked up a few recommended books along the way.
> The Best Apocalyptic Fiction, recommended by Elliot Ackerman
> 1. The King James Bible
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#29I'm surprised there are enough books published under the category of "Reverse-harem" to make it its own category along with things like "Horror", "Fantasy", "Business", etc.
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#30Funny that most remote and isolated clusters ended up being m-m-romance and ... manga.