Comments on: Measuring the Great Books ./../index.html Artist- and Librarian-At-Large Sat, 04 Jun 2016 18:04:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.8 By: Great Books data dictionary « Infomotions Mini-Musings ./../comment-page-1/index.html#comment-4800 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:56:45 +0000 ./../../../../index.html?p=544#comment-4800 […] a variation Term Frequency Inverse Document Frequency (TFIDF) cumulating in a value called the Great Ideas Coefficient. Finally, each book element includes sub-elements denoting who wrote the work (author), the […]

]]> By: Eric Lease Morgan ./../comment-page-1/index.html#comment-3412 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:25:55 +0000 ./../../../../index.html?p=544#comment-3412 Julia, thank you for bringing this to my attention. The complete great-books.xml file has been restored. Weird.

BTW, while great-books.xml is the canonical file representing the collection/investigation, most people will want to use .csv version for analysis in things like R. I plan on elaborating on this idea in the next posting, but in the meantime, you might want to try http://infomotions.com/sandbox/great-books/etc/great-books.csv

Again, thank you

]]> By: Julia ./../comment-page-1/index.html#comment-3411 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:54:12 +0000 ./../../../../index.html?p=544#comment-3411 Hey Eric, I was going to start playing with some statistics for the data set, but there’s a problem — the great-books.xml linked above only has the data for the first 30 books!

]]> By: “Sum” THATCamp possibilities? « THATCamp London 2010 ./../comment-page-1/index.html#comment-3405 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:06:24 +0000 ./../../../../index.html?p=544#comment-3405 […] level. I’ve begun to count the “greatness” of a book as described in a number of blog postings. Once these sorts of things are measured, I’d like to discuss with people ways these […]

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