Mapping All The Books
Earliest this calendar month the GDELT Project made available information from 3.5 i thou 1000 digitized books on Google BigQuery. The information is available inwards ii assort BigQuery datasets:
Internet Archive Book Collection inwards Google BigQuery (includes fulltext for 1800-1922 books)
HathiTrust Book Collection inwards Google BigQuery
There is patently a lot of mapping potential inwards all those 3.5 i thou 1000 books. For event you lot could map the issue of books published past times place past times year. This GDELT Project map uses CartoDB's Torque library to create only that.
The map shows all the books from the HathiTrust collection. The HathiTrust collection contains millions of titles digitized from libraries roughly the world. This map shows the locations of all the locations mentioned inwards the collection from 1800-2011. One obvious designing is the increase of North American locations mentioned inwards the books equally the years pass.
If you lot desire to outset using the ii BigQuery tables yourself together with thence this GDELT Project introduction Google BigQuery + 3.5M Books: Sample Queries should essay useful. The article includes a issue of sample queries which you lot tin run on either of the ii BigQuery datasets. It too includes a duet of maps made from information obtained from sample queries.
One of the event maps shows locations made inwards Civil War related books (screenshot above). The other event maps all books published 1900 to 1920 alongside the dependent champaign tag 'World War'.
Internet Archive Book Collection inwards Google BigQuery (includes fulltext for 1800-1922 books)
HathiTrust Book Collection inwards Google BigQuery
There is patently a lot of mapping potential inwards all those 3.5 i thou 1000 books. For event you lot could map the issue of books published past times place past times year. This GDELT Project map uses CartoDB's Torque library to create only that.
The map shows all the books from the HathiTrust collection. The HathiTrust collection contains millions of titles digitized from libraries roughly the world. This map shows the locations of all the locations mentioned inwards the collection from 1800-2011. One obvious designing is the increase of North American locations mentioned inwards the books equally the years pass.
If you lot desire to outset using the ii BigQuery tables yourself together with thence this GDELT Project introduction Google BigQuery + 3.5M Books: Sample Queries should essay useful. The article includes a issue of sample queries which you lot tin run on either of the ii BigQuery datasets. It too includes a duet of maps made from information obtained from sample queries.
One of the event maps shows locations made inwards Civil War related books (screenshot above). The other event maps all books published 1900 to 1920 alongside the dependent champaign tag 'World War'.
