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- Book reviews
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Listing of >7k books I've read
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The data set contains information of books that have been reviewed at least once.
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The reviews are received from reputable German print media such as the *Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung* (FAZ), *Süddeutsche Zeitung* (SZ), *Die Zeit*, etc. and other serious broadcasters such as *Deutschlandfunk Kultur*.
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Those reviews are collected by the culture magazine [*Perlentaucher*](https://www.perlentaucher.de) and labeled as *read a lot* when there are at least three reviews of a book.
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[*Perlentaucher*](https://www.perlentaucher.de) publishes on a daily basis since the year 2000, except for German Sun- and holidays. On average, there are about *M*=12 (*SD*=5) bookentries per day.
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Data was harvested for all entries starting from March 15, 2000 to May
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- `date`: the pubication day of book review (as Pandas `timestamp[ns]`, `YYYY-MM-DD`)
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- `relevant`: boolean, whether the book is relevant (i.e. marked as *read a lot*, dtype: `bool`)
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- `author`: the author of the book (dtype: `string`)
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- `title`: the title of the book (dtype: `string`)
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- `content`: the dust cover blurb (dtype: `string`)
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- `notes`: the number of review notes as an indicator wheter the the book is relevant; lumped to zero for *n*<3 notes (dtype: `int64`)
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- `publisher`: the publisher of the book (dtype: `string`)
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Listing of the >7k books I've read recently. Some claim it's actually data scraped from website [*Perlentaucher*](https://www.perlentaucher.de). Which you believe is up to you, but here's a [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koPSzQWzwno) of my occasional reading activity (haters gonna say it's fake).
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# Dataset card
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## Dataset Description
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The data set contains information of books that have been reviewed at least once.
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The reviews are received from reputable German print media such as the *Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung* (FAZ), *Süddeutsche Zeitung* (SZ), *Die Zeit*, etc. and other serious broadcasters such as *Deutschlandfunk Kultur*.
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Those reviews are collected by the culture magazine [*Perlentaucher*](https://www.perlentaucher.de) and labeled as *read a lot* when there are at least three reviews of a book.
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[*Perlentaucher*](https://www.perlentaucher.de) publishes on a daily basis since the year 2000, except for German Sun- and holidays. On average, there are about *M*=12 (*SD*=5) bookentries per day.
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Data was harvested for all entries starting from March 15, 2000 to May 18, 2024. In total, the data set consists of 89,790 rows for 7,351 days and 15 columns.
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## Variables overview
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- `date`: the publication day of book review (dtype: `date32`, `YYYY-MM-DD`)
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- `author`: the author of the book (dtype: `string`)
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- `title`: the title of the book (dtype: `string`)
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- `ISBN`: the International Standard Book Number, ISBN-13 in normalized form (i.e. hyphens removed); correctness has been tested via check digit; missing/incorrect numbers have been corrected manually (dtype: `string`)
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- `price`: the price of the book in euros (`decimal128(6, 2)`, i.e. `scale = 2` for cents)
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- `n_pages`: the number of book pages; nan for other types such as audio files (dtype: `uint16`)
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- `n_reviews`: the number of review notes as an indicator whether the book is relevant; lumped to 1 for *n*<3 notes (dtype: `uint8`)
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- `content`: the dust cover blurb (dtype: `string`)
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- `publisher`: the publisher of the book (dtype: `string`)
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- `pub_place`: the place (city) where the books have been published; incorrect/inconsistent spellings have been corrected manually (dtype: `string`)
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- `pub_year`: the year the books has been published (dtype: `uint16`)
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- `media_type`: the type of media, i.e. *audio*, *print*, *videofilm* or unknown (dtype: `string`)
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- `media_spec`: a specification of the media type; for books its binding like soft- or hardcover (dtype: `string`)
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- `is_relevant`: boolean, whether the book is relevant (i.e. marked as *read a lot*, dtype: `bool`)
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- `is_novel`: boolean, whether the book is a novel according to its title (dtype: `bool`)
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## Citation Information
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@misc {schneider2024pearldive,
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author = { Schneider, Jo\~{a}o A G },
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title = { Pearl Diver },
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year = { 2024 },
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month = { May },
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url = { https://huggingface.co/datasets/JoaoSchneider/PearlDiver },
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doi = { 10.57967/hf/2245 },
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publisher = { Hugging Face },
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note = { Revision 786df49 }
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}
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```
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