Visualising 19th Century Australian Readerships
This web page is a companion to a chapter appearing in “Resourceful Reading” by Sydney University Press. The chapter details are:
J. Lamond and M. Reid, Squinting at a Sea of Dots: Visualising Australian Readerships using Statistical Machine Learning, 2009.
The visualisation application aims to present information from the Australian Common Reader database in a easy-to-navigate and interactive form.
The application itself can be opened by clicking on the following link or the screenshot below: open the visualisation tool.
- Figure 1: A screenshot of the Australian Common Readership Project visualisation tool and its controls: A) Selected book; B) Book details; C) Search by Title; D) Search by Author; E) Borrower threshold; F) Similarity threshold; G) Libraries.
More details about some of the algorithms used to lay out the visualisation are discussed in a companion blog post.