Book Publishing Dataset

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Book Publishing Dataset

This is dataset featuring various attributes about books from nine different publishers, with publishing years ranging from 1600s to 2016. Included in the data is attributes reagrding sales, ratings and book identities. The data was orginally published by Josh Murrey on data.world under the name Books; however, I have altered and cleaned the data to better work with my project.

More information on how I am using the data can be found in my CS 573 Project Proposal.

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List of Attributes:

• Publishing Year: Ordinal
• Book Name: Categorical
• Author: Categorical
• Language: Categorical
• Author Rating: Quantitative
• Book Average Rating: Quantitative
• Book Rating: Quantitative
• Genre: Categorical
• Grosss Sales: Quantitative
• Publisher Revenue: Quantitative
• Sales Price: Quantitative
• Sales Rank: Ordinal
• Publisher: Quantitative
• Unit Sold: Quantitative

Questions/Task:

• Is there any correlation between an author's rating and the number of units sold?
• Are books more likely to be bought if they are published by certain publishers?

(Within some extra data)

• Do prestigious literary awards result in larger sales?
• Which countries have produced the most influential authors?
• How have our cultural taste in literature changed over time?

I would need more data if I were to go with and answer some of these questions/tasks. I have already found a much more extensive book database with would certainly help; however, it is much greater than 5 mbs. I could possibly try to reduce it down. In the meantime, this dataset works as a proposal for the project.

bookPublishingData.csv