Episode 095 – Ratings, Reviews, and Tags

This episode we’re discussing Ratings, Reviews, and Tags! We talk about subject headings, our most used tags, malicious metadata, how we use star-based rating systems, the value we see in bad reviews, art styles that are morally wrong, and more!

Plus: A data-driven analysis to find the most unfinished book on Goodreads!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Media We Mention

• My Ideal Bookshelf edited by Thessaly La Force 
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
• Guillermo del Toro’s Penguin Horror line
• Yotsuba&!, Vol. 11 by Kiyohiko Azuma
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Links, Articles, and Things

• Folksonomy (Wikipedia)
• Tag (metadata) (Wikipedia)
• Library of Congress Subject Headings (Wikipedia)
• BiblioCommons (Wikipedia)
• OverDrive (Wikipedia)
• Hoopla (Wikipedia)
• BoardGameGeek’s list of top games
• Scarleteen | Sex Education For The Real World
• Spider Reviews by Jenny Nicholson 
• Bic Pens ‘For Her’ Get Hilariously Snarky Amazon Reviews 

What are the most unfinished books according to Goodreads?*

1. The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
2. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
3. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
4. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
5. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
6. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
7. Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
8. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

*Based upon the top 50 most tagged titles from these shelves. Data taken on 2020-01-20. 

• abandoned
• couldn’t finish
• did not finish
• didn’t finish
• dnf
• gave up
• gave up on
• never finished
• unfinished

(I missed “not finished”.)

Here’s the spreadsheet if you want to see the other titles.

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Join us again on Tuesday, March 3rd we’ll be discussing Non-Fiction Climate Change books!

Then on Tuesday, March 17th we’ll be talking about Objectifying Books!