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MSc Thesis project examines the influence of COVID-19 on book reading behaviour
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Find how to retrieve data and possible metrics for following variables
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srosh2000
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2 years ago
srosh2000
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2 years ago
Data on published books and their publishers
Rankings in terms of how famous these publishing houses are
Book genre
Status of the author i.e. experience in publishing books [ potential metric?]
srosh2000
commented
2 years ago
Data on book genre and publisher names can be web scraped using Scrapy(Python)
We could classify publishers broadly into 'big 5 publishers, self publishers and others'.
List of big 5 publishers:
https://www.9thstreetbooks.com/big-five-publishers-and-imprints/
List of self-publishers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_self-publishing_companies
We could extract the names and match them with the publishers in the data to classify