{"id":4559,"date":"2018-02-13T20:24:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T19:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lesestunden.de\/?p=4559"},"modified":"2022-09-07T08:58:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T06:58:36","slug":"worueber-schreiben-buchblogger-analyse-mit-visualisierung-und-statistiken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lesestunden.de\/en\/2018\/02\/what-do-book-bloggers-write-about-analysis-with-visualization-and-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"What do book bloggers write about: Analysis with visualization and statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Since starting this blog, I\u2019ve repeatedly analyzed the book-blogging blogosphere and published posts with detailed statistics and visualizations. I\u2019ve already looked at networking<\/a>, the origins of bloggers<\/a>, and what book bloggers read<\/a>. This post now looks at the most interesting and at the same time most central topic of this select little circle: What do book bloggers write about? This evaluation is by far the most labor-intensive and, in terms of data, the most extensive analysis I\u2019ve done so far. The basis is nothing less than a complete copy of all articles ever published by all book blogs. This time there\u2019s a particular focus on publishers and the question of how successful their marketing work is. And of course, this post also includes some exciting general insights into the world of book bloggers.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

To understand the following statistics and visualizations, it\u2019s important to know what data they\u2019re based on. I processed all blogs from the Top List<\/a>, i.e., all book blogs that have published a post within the last six months. I developed a program that fully crawls all these blogs and loads all posts\u2014with title, article content (without images and formatting), and date\u2014into an efficiently searchable index. Then I obtained a database of all books published in Germany to date. I subsequently searched all posts for these books, once using the ISBN and once by looking for the occurrence of title and author name in the article text. The result is a list of books and information on when they were mentioned in which blog and in which post. Based on this information, I determined the results that I present in this post.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

If you\u2019re interested in the data basis and the approach and would like to learn more, I can point you to a post that I will publish in a few days. I will make the program that forms the basis for this analysis available as open source. That way anyone can understand what I did, validate the data, create a study based on it, or simply take a look at how I proceeded.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Blogging behavior<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In total, I captured 616,044 blog posts<\/strong> across 1,271 blogs<\/strong>. I found 688,508 books<\/strong> mentioned in those posts. Bloggers typed 2,188,957,324 characters<\/strong>, which corresponds to 1,216,087 book pages<\/strong>, which in turn equals 1,216 one-thousand-page tomes<\/strong>. On average, a blog article has 3,553 characters<\/strong>, which is just under two book pages.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The following histogram shows the distribution of post lengths in a bit more detail (the X-axis shows post length; the Y-axis shows the number of posts that fall into that length range).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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It\u2019s very clear that most posts have between 1,800 and 2,999 characters\u2014that is, between one and two book pages. I only considered posts with more than 600 characters. As I noticed in isolated cases, some bloggers use their blog almost like a kind of Twitter and write only a few lines there, often with completely trivial content. Very few bloggers write very extensive blog posts. It\u2019s noticeable that some blogs with longer posts indeed offer very good content. Below is a list of blogs with the greatest average post length:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n