Hey Andrew - Thanks for the info. I saw your time-based graphics on the website and those work really well. I'm putting together a weekly bar chart that will show most downloaded authors and books each week. 

I'll likely have that first thing every Monday morning. Would love feedback, so I'll send it your way before finalizing. thx.

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 6:48 PM Andrew Sly <andrewpsly@gmail.com> wrote:
Project Gutenberg only saves downloaded records for 30 days. We don't keep any older than that.

--Andrew

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 2:13 PM Joshua Preston via socialmedia <socialmedia@lists.pglaf.org> wrote:
Good stuff. So all the data work will be predicated on Project Gutenberg books and what data for each book is available. Having that upfront lets us discuss the possibilities more concretely. I'm able to tackle anything of interest, but the engine of car, as it were, is your data, and I'll need that to get specific projects of interest up and running. 

Just to give you an idea, if I did anything on Baudelaire, the core focus is the specific ebooks Gutenberg makes available to readers (and a link to them to encourage readership perhaps). I can compare that list to the total works of Baudelaire by doing my own data collection from a reliable source (wikipedia has a table of his works). That would be the framework for one project. Within that small project we can talk about if you can make available the number of lifetime downloads or downloads over time of Baudelaire's work.

I hope this clarifies how we might work together. 

cheers! Josh

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 6:29 AM Laura N <lnatal55@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Josh:

I will let you know as soon as I know about some special dates/celebrations and so on.

Concerning Baudelaire, there is the International Charles Baudelaire Society (@Baudelaire-asso & https://www.facebook.com/charlesbaudelaire.org) charlesbaudelaire.org. They are planning some special events in order to celebrate his 200y's birthday. They are a better source of information than Wiki.

Last 7th April was the celebration of 250y of Worsdworth's birthday. The media are still talking about it. Perhaps you could produce something regarding his works.

You are doing great work, keep going...

Regards

Laura



Em qui., 11 de jun. de 2020 às 02:07, Joshua Preston <photopartner@gmail.com> escreveu:
Hey Laura - thanks for the welcome. I like the brainstorming already!  As to your question, no one likes the answer "it depends" but that's the answer, and it depends on....the data. If you have sufficient data and it's structured, I can do a basic chart in a few hours. Something more creative and design intensive usually takes a week or two, depending on scale.

If there's something measurable and the data can be easily structured in a table (csv or excel) then that's when the magic can come to life for the visual data story. 

e.g. Baudelaire has a wikipedia page with all his works with publishing year included. We can use that as a jumping off point, but the question becomes, what do we measure? His downloads and available works on Gutenberg? That's a solid start, but can we go further and make it really creative? Greg and I talked about keeping things lightweight on both ends (mine and Gutenbergs), but if the data is there, the possibilities are numerous.

As a passion project, I just completed this look at the 2019 Watchmen sequel. Love that story and I went in search of something to really let people dig into. This took about a month working on it on and off. 

Enjoy!


Josh

On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 12:05 PM Laura N <lnatal55@gmail.com> wrote:
Welcome to our team Joshua!! 

In fact, there are always some celebrations coming up. How long does it take you to make these interactive graphics?

For instance, there will be a 200y celebration of Baudelaire's birthday in April 2021. I know it is quite ahead but it's just an example.

Regards

Laura

Em seg., 8 de jun. de 2020 às 16:40, Joshua Preston via socialmedia <socialmedia@lists.pglaf.org> escreveu:
Intro to social media team: Love the work you're doing at Project Gutenberg. As a fan, I'm creating interactive graphics to showcase books on Project Gutenberg. I'd love to, when possible, promote particular authors, works, celebrations (e.g. women authors in sci-fi), etc. through interactive graphics. 

If you have something important or new you'd like to promote, and there's data I can work with on the website, I can look at creating something. I'll keep tagging Project Gutenberg in my Tweets (through @reignbooks account) and engage with the team when appropriate and based on your interest. Thanks a bunch. 

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