It will be interesting to see how books travel and if there are any human stories that data can tell.
If you dont know what bookCrossing is http://www.bookcrossing.com/about It's the World's Library. It's a smart social networking site. It's a celebration of literature and a place where books get new life. BookCrossing is the act of giving a book a unique identity so, as the book is passed from reader to reader, it can be tracked and thus connecting its readers. There are currently *1,493,211 BookCrossers* and *9,423,729 books* travelling throughout*132 countries*. Our community is changing the world and touching lives one book at a time. DATA Collected by Cai-Nicolas Ziegler in a 4-week crawl (August / September 2004) from the Book-Crossing <http://www.bookcrossing.com/> community with kind permission from Ron Hornbaker, CTO of Humankind Systems<http://www.humankindsystems.com/>. Contains 278,858 users (anonymized but with demographic information) providing 1,149,780 ratings (explicit / implicit) about 271,379 books. http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~cziegler/BX/ Thej -- Thejesh GN | ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ http://thejeshgn.com GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected].
