07-10-2012, 12:51 PM | #1 |
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Useless Statistics
The point of this thread is useless statistics. Well, and to maybe find some new books and authors to read.
I was looking through my list of books read this year on GoodReads and just love all the statistics available. So show me what you've read this year and how popular/unpopular it is. I'll go first as an example: Popular - most ratings: Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (565,982) Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World (395,044) Zusak, Markus - The Book Thief (199,383) Palahniuk, Chuck - Fight Club (105,128) Gaiman, Neil - Neverwhere (79,935) Unpopular - fewest ratings: Tredinnick, Luke - Why Intranets Fail (And How to Fix Them) (1) Resmini, Andrea - Pervasive Information Architecture (6) Elkin, Stanley - Van Gogh's Room at Arles (43) Galloway, Steven - Ascension (70) Bidini, Dave - Tropic of Hockey (80) Best book - highest average rating: Resmini, Andrea - Pervasive Information Architecture (4.50) (5) Zusak, Markus - The Book Thief (4.33) (4) Pratchett, Terry - I Shall Wear Midnight (4.30) (4) Pratchett, Terry - A Hat Full of Sky (4.23) (4) Neufeld, Gordon - Hold on to Your Kids (4.20) (4) Worst book - lowest average rating: Taylor, Arlene G. - The Organization of Information (2.73) (2) Tredinnick, Luke - Why Intranets Fail (And How to Fix Them) (3.00) (3) Wells, H.G. - In the Days of the Comet (3.24) (?) Elkin, Stanley - Van Gogh's Room at Arles (3.33) (3) Yu, Charles - How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (3.34) (5) I put my ratings in the second set of brackets for comparison purposes. |
07-10-2012, 05:00 PM | #2 |
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It took me a bit to figure out how to show some of the categories you used, but here they are:
Popular - Most Ratings: Here are the top 10
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07-10-2012, 07:17 PM | #3 |
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>>Resmini, Andrea - Pervasive Information Architecture<<
My real job! Do you do IA? Do you do multi-channel stuff? How did you like this book? Sorry for the hijack! eP |
07-10-2012, 07:47 PM | #4 |
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Ooh, good idea!
Most Ratings The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) - Larsson, Stieg (438,564) The Girl Who Played With Fire (Millennium #2) - Larsson, Stieg (209,287) The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3) - Larsson, Stieg (164,934) Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10) - Butcher, Jim (19,845) Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, #11) - Butcher, Jim (17,170) Least Ratings Ten Past Midnight - Toombs, Jane (2) At The Millionaire's Request (Silhouette Special Edition #1769) - Southwick, Teresa (6) The Farmer Takes a Wife - Gale, Barbara (7) The Mission - Marquis, Michelle (7) Abby's Last Stand - Marquis, Michelle (7) Highest Average Rating Wool Omnibus Edition (Wool, #1-5) - Howey, Hugh (4.51) (5) Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, #11) - Butcher, Jim (4.41) (5) Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10) - Butcher, Jim (4.40) (4) Ice Age - Rowan, Iain (4.29) (4) I Held My Breath as Long as I Could - Kelly, Kristopher (4.19) (4) Lowest Average Rating The Farmer Takes a Wife - Gale, Barbara (2.71) (3) Mastering Chaos - Marquis, Michelle (2.82) (3) At The Millionaire's Request (Silhouette Special Edition #1769) - Southwick, Teresa (2.83) (4) Ten Past Midnight - Toombs, Jane (3.00) (3) Abby's Last Stand - Marquis, Michelle (3.00) (4) |
07-11-2012, 08:22 AM | #5 |
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Well you know what the first author on that list said, right?
"lies, damn lies, and statistics" |
07-11-2012, 08:42 AM | #6 |
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Why not!
Popular - most ratings: Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451 (374,950) Wells, H.G. - The Time Machine (66,028) Ishiguro, Kazuo - The Remains of the Day (34,395) Fitzgerald, F. Scott - Tender is the Night (27,764) Hearn, Lian - Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori, #1) (9,982) Unpopular - fewest ratings: Black, John - Work Of Art (1) Carroll, Lewis - Cthulhu in Wonderland (5) Evans, L.C. - Night Camp (11) Mardoll, Ana - Pulchritude (14) Arnold, Joel - Northwoods Deep (16) Best book - highest average rating: Howey, Hugh - Wool Omnibus Edition (Wool, #1-5) (4.51) (5) Evans, L.C. - Night Camp (4.27) (4) Logan, John A.A. - The Survival of Thomas Ford (4.17) (4) Jordan, Steven Lyle - Verdant Skies (4.12) (4) Pierce, Meredith Ann - A Gathering of Gargoyles (Darkangel Trilogy, #2) (4.08) (4) Worst book - lowest average rating: Black, John - Work Of Art (3.00) (3) Pepper, Adam - Symphony of Blood: A Hank Mondale Supernatural Case (3.12) (3) Chabon, Michael - The Final Solution (3.26) (4) Guin, Ursula K. Le - Rocannon's World (3.55) (3) Miéville, China - Kraken (3.55) (4) |
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I guess you guys above have not read Harry Potter or Twilight! Those are my most popular, with over 1 million ratings apiece.
As for the ratings, I find the "outliers" very interesting: where I have rated a book very high and the average rating is very low, or vice versa. My outliers: Divergent by Veronica Roth: 2 stars by me, 4.39 avg Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing: 4 stars by me, 3.12 avg. I loved that book and I don't even like chick lit very much. I see a lot of people were really annoyed by it. None of the books my list have less than 3 stars average. Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing was the lowest rated on my list (sad!). The next two lowest with 3.13--The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender and The Vintage Caper by Peter Mayle--I also really hated. My least-rated book is Echoes from the Macabre by Daphne DuMaurier which I believe is out of print. eP |
07-11-2012, 10:35 AM | #8 |
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^I was just checking the books I read this year so far.
Totally agreed on the outliers being the most interesting. Apparently Charles Yu's How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe is a pretty poor book, rated at 3.34 when I gave it a 5. I thought it was clever, entertaining and a bit goofy. Everything I love in a book like that. I'll have to check for other outliers. I know I've got some doozies there somewhere. |
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07-31-2012, 05:19 PM | #11 |
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I am kinda bummed this thread didn't make it very far, so I am going to bump it.
I have only been keeping decent records of my reading for 2011 and 2012 (since I got my Kindle), so it would be much more work for me to get this information for all the books I have read. To add some content, I re-read the Hitchhikers "trilogy" (375k ratings to <30k ratings) last year and read the Hunger Games trilogy (900k ratings to 500k ratings), which have the most ratings of the books I have read since starting to keep track. |
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07-31-2012, 05:47 PM | #13 |
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In my list at Goodreads, the best rated book there is...
Star Trek: Vanguard: Storming Heaven by David Mack (4.56) http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...torming-heaven |
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