Bestselling Books Project is a digital project created around 2024 that creates a visualization of the bestselling books throughout the years, and exploring how they interrelate with each other. The goal of the Bestselling Books Project is to explore the network of book subjects and their interrelations with each other. Initially the project was meant to focus on genres and sales to evaluate book readers’ interests, but the team behind the project decided to take another approach instead. By concentrating on common genre tag words used to describe and categorize books, allowing for readers to find either what books fall under the tags they want to read or what tags the book you selected can be found.
In terms of connecting with Digital Humanities’ goal, the project helps for people to find the kind of books they wish to read. It’s one thing to look for a specific book when you know the title and such, but it can narrow your search that can overlook the other books around you that holds the same kind of genres you’re into. So the Bestselling Books Project helps you to not only find any books that fall under the genre tags, but also other topics that may be what interests you or want to avoid in the books.
This project was created by:
Daria Koshkina
Currently work at the Center for Complex Networks Research, Barabasi Labs. Have worked with United Nations Women, Borzo, Best Films Festival, and Alina Sokulska PhD., among others.
Concept & creative direction, art direction, data search, analysis, visualization, and web development programming.
Yixuan Liu
Once worked at Krannert School of Management, Purdue University as an Assistant Professor of Management in the Management Information Systems Area from 2020-2022. Now an Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems in China Europe International Business School.
Data analysis, network science, visualization, and programming
David Y. Stephenson
A React and TypeScript engineer with over 10 years of experience. Have extensive background with tools like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, NextJS, ExpressJS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Google Firebase. Offers tutoring services including bootcamp support, long-term mentoring, and a complete educational experience.
Code review
Belal Haikal
Work at Talpa TV as Solution Architect; iflix, Exact Asia Development Centre, and Tranglo as a software engineer; former intern programmer at Syriatel.
Code review