Making an MVP
Looking at our data, we can start by asking a basic question: what are the most interesting questions I can answer with this data? After looking at the data and thinking about what information I would want from my Goodreads reading history, here are a few questions that I have thought of:
- How many books do I read each year?
- How long does it take for me to finish a book that I have started?
- How long are the books that I have read?
- How old are the books that I have read?
- How do I rate books compared to other Goodreads users?
We can take these questions, figure out how to modify our data to visualize them well, and then make the first attempt at creating our product by printing out all of the graphs.
How many books do I read each year?
For the first question about books read per year, we have the Date Read column with the data presented in the format of yyyy/mm/dd. The following code block will do the following:
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