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pizzakarin
Posted 2014-04-04 2:03 PM (#6845)
Subject: New Stat Type: Sub-genre tags



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Location: Austin, Tx		I joined the beta for a new site called Geek Improvement and, as with any new site, I asked myself what it was giving me that other sites don't. Why should I use that site to track my reading habits instead of (or in addition to) Goodreads or Worlds Without End? The only unique thing I saw was that there was a stat that measured scifi vs fantasy content that I've marked read/played. Goodreads also used to do a piechart on the reading challenge page which showed as a percentage how many books fell into a tag, but it wasn't very helpful.

Bottomline: I would love to be able to see how many books users (including myself) have read in a specific subgenre with maybe a pie chart to put those numbers into perspective.
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Posted 2014-04-06 12:32 PM (#6855 - in reply to #6845)
Subject: RE: New Stat Type: Sub-genre tags



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pizzakarin - 2014-04-04 2:03 PM I joined the beta for a new site called Geek Improvement and, as with any new site, I asked myself what it was giving me that other sites don't. Why should I use that site to track my reading habits instead of (or in addition to) Goodreads or Worlds Without End? The only unique thing I saw was that there was a stat that measured scifi vs fantasy content that I've marked read/played. Goodreads also used to do a piechart on the reading challenge page which showed as a percentage how many books fell into a tag, but it wasn't very helpful. Bottomline: I would love to be able to see how many books users (including myself) have read in a specific subgenre with maybe a pie chart to put those numbers into perspective.

We've always intended to include more statistical breakdowns like you're suggesting though I don't think we considered a pie chart specifically.  I love the idea!  How about this:

- pie one shows your main genre reading stats:  SF, Fantasy and Horror where each pie piece is a link to a page showing all books in the genre that you've tagged as read

- pie two shows a break down of the top 10 sub-genres in SF that you've read again with clickable pieces

- pie three is the same for Fantasy

- pie four is for Horror

You can see a direct comparison between your pies and any other WWEnder's when you check their stats and we can do a WWEnd overall set as well.

Your suggestion is very timely.  We're planning a major overhaul of the My World section right now so you've given us more ideas that play right into that.  More info as it develops.  Thanks!

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Engelbrecht
Posted 2014-04-12 9:22 PM (#7093 - in reply to #6845)
Subject: RE: New Stat Type: Sub-genre tags



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Neat idea!!  (and who doesn't like pie?)

One small issue - since books can be tagged as multiple genres (dark fantasy, sci-fantasy, even dark sci-fi?), the wedges of pie one (and the other pies as well) can add up to more than 100%.  I suppose that this could be normalized though (as an example, original percentages of, say, 60%, 40%, 5% would be normalized to 57.14%, 38.10%, 4.76%).  Anyhow, just wanted to mention it.

 

 

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