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Or why not release the data so that we can run queries on it ourselves? I doubt the entire dataset would be larger than a gig. Then we can run queries on top 10
by elfexec 7y ago
Or why not release the data so that we can run queries on it ourselves? I doubt the entire dataset would be larger than a gig. Then we can run queries on top 10 by genres, by authors, by decades, by age group, gender, etc. Whatever we want.
- derefr 7y agoLibrarians are almost-universally hardline privacy advocates. They would be very unlikely to release a dataset that could be deanonymized.
- sand500 7y agoI wonder if they computerized check out history from pre-computer era. i.e. using paper cards for check outs
- TuringNYC 7y agoIm not certain, but I vaguely remember a punch-card type checkout in the Brooklyn Public Library when I was a child in the 80s. That would suggest the data is hopefully around and ingestable into a modern system (prob already done)
- elfexec 7y agoLibrary data could easily be anonymized, especially for what we are doing looking to do here. We wouldn't even need account info, just information on books ( category, author, etc ) and the dates it was checked out.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoI can't see how, can you explain that. You know Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone was checked out on 20-01-12, from my city's library .. how do you know who in my city checked it out?