A visual book recommender

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Post by squidhunter » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 11:40 AM UTC

A visual book recommender
nathanrooy.github.io

Re: A visual book recommender

#2

Post by igaloly » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 12:14 PM UTC

Nice! Is there a github repo?

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Post by qumpis » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 12:50 PM UTC

This looks super cool, but why not use this tool as a non-visual tool to show similar books given a title? As far as I know there aren't many tools for this

Also it would be super cool if we could import out goodreads reading lists and see them on the cluster

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Post by WaitWaitWha » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 12:58 PM UTC

Have you presented this to LibraryThing?

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Post by FreeHugs » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 12:59 PM UTC

Reminds me of https://www.literature-map.com

Which is a map of all authors in the world sorted by overlap in readership. I found some of my favorite writers by browsing it.

I wonder which approach is better suited to find something that is spot on to my interests.

When I think of my favorite books, they usually are the most popular books of their authors.

Are there any counterexamples, where an author wrote a book that is more profound than their biggest hit but got overlooked for some reason?

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Post by jvanderbot » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 1:02 PM UTC

Id love to have https://same.energy for book contents.

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Post by motoboi » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 1:05 PM UTC

Really interesting that my favorite sci-fi book, Pandora's Star is in the middle of a void in the center of a large sci-fi cluster.

It explains why I couldn't find anything like it.

Also very explanatory the fact the Tolkien's The Two Towers is right by its side, because I also love that book.

And now I'm already downloading the other "outliers" close to Pandora's Star.

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Post by nycdatasci » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 1:06 PM UTC

Cool visualization, but the model needs work. The closest book to "Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets" is "The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners".

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Post by narcraft » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 1:14 PM UTC

nycdatasci wrote: post #8

Cool visualization, but the model needs work. The closest book to "Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets" is "The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners".

Sounds about right to me!

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Post by paweladamczuk » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 1:23 PM UTC

This is really cool!

I wish the accompanying article was longer. I can't fully grasp how it was done because I don't know enough about the concepts mentioned.