The Amazon Book Map (by Chris Harrison)


	The Amazon Book Map (by Chris Harrison)

Djiezes

6-6-2008 5:21 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#999999;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c984cd81-2292-4fbf-981a-581d2c8f1518/801ACF9C-896A-41E2-8BCF-1378DF4A5758/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/amazonviz/index.html" href="http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/amazonviz/index.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.chrisharrison.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/amazonviz/index.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.chrisharrison.net/img/E7DC6C61-5EA3-4799-95EC-D42702DEB99E" alt="amazon book map" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/amazonviz/index.html"><P align="center">Book Cover Version - <A href="http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/amazonviz/preview-amazonFinal6.jpg">Download 
              Full Resolution JPG (10,296 x 15,444)</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/amazonviz/index.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.chrisharrison.net/img/8CE4BFFA-CFCA-4B20-9A75-F59DF17C32B1" alt="amazon book map visualization" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/amazonviz/index.html"><P align="center">Dot Version - <A href="http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/amazonviz/amazonMap.jpg">Download Full 
              Resolution JPG (8580 x 8580)</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/amazonviz/index.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.chrisharrison.net/img/9AD8012C-ABA1-4AE3-A1DC-6E726D177113" alt="amazon book map visualization" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/amazonviz/index.html"><P align="center">Close-up of Book Cover Version</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/amazonviz/index.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.chrisharrison.net/img/DAF7273B-FCDE-4EAD-ABF5-6357E4436996" alt="amazon book map visualization" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/amazonviz/index.html">Super Close-up of Book Cover Version</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/amazonviz/index.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.chrisharrison.net/img/FC5CAE04-0C2A-49B3-8EF0-686CFEE2AF3F" alt="amazon book map visualization" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/amazonviz/index.html"><P align="center">Color Coding Key - Amazon Book Categories</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/amazonviz/index.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.chrisharrison.net/img/F3253831-3A54-420A-A78B-CB9E6E6BC59B" alt="amazon map color code key" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/amazonviz/index.html">a whopping 
              10,316,775 connections (edges) between books Amazon believed were 
              related</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/amazonviz/index.html">10,316,775 connections (edges) between books Amazon believed were 
              related</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/amazonviz/index.html">Items that were noted as being similar had attractive forces, 
              bringing them together, often into large groups. Unsurprisingly, 
              when we color coded by Amazon book category, there was an obvious 
              coalescence. The way various high-level categorizations mix and 
              meet also seems fairly logical. 
            </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/amazonviz/index.html">The first visualization is a huge mosaic of book covers, tinted 
              by their respective category colors. I can't produce this in one 
              go at full resolution because the memory requires are enormous. 
              The second version uses color-coded dots. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/amazonviz/index.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.chrisharrison.net/img/4FF3CE40-CC45-4B93-B4CA-A6A9FDF1FF50" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/801ACF9C-896A-41E2-8BCF-1378DF4A5758/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>