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A few questions (I don't mean to sound overly brief or critical - it's a nice site - but I'm at work so can't spend ages writing): * Where do you get the data
by andrew1 17y ago
A few questions (I don't mean to sound overly brief or critical - it's a nice site - but I'm at work so can't spend ages writing):
* Where do you get the data from about gender? Is it from users of your site? Is it from Amazon or something like that? I like to know where data's from so that I can make some judgement as to whether I want to disregard it. Data with no source definitely gets disregarded :)
* What am I supposed to do on your site? Just look for books and then follow links to buy them? Or can I rate books?
* Why are you basing the whole experience off of gender? I don't see why it's particularly useful to know what other men like, or what women like. I'd rather know what people like me like. i.e. like the whole Netflix recommendations thing. This just seems like a one-dimensional version of that?
- pmjoyce 17y agoAt the moment the data comes from amazon but I'm just about to add a module that takes review data from goodreads. To answer your 2nd and 3rd questions; it came out of a requirement I had to be able to quickly segment/categorise books I might want for myself but I think other people also use it for gift inspiration. I found gender was a reasonably neat line for me to be able to segment. I've also found it a little more-ish to check up on books I've read in the past and see where it lie on the spectrum. This is not supposed to be a one size fits all in book categorisation and segmentation - it's just another tool. Some people seem to have fun doing it and find it useful - some are even clicking through to amazon to purchase.