Hacker News with Generative AI: ISBN

Winners of the $10k ISBN visualization bounty (annas-archive.org)
A few months ago we announced a $10,000 bounty to make the best possible visualization of our data showing the ISBN space. We emphasized showing which files we have/haven’t archived already, and we later a dataset describing how many libraries hold ISBNs (a measure of rarity).
Data Visualization, Libraries, ISBN, Data Analysis, Competitions
600 points by yamrzou 60 days ago | 66 comments
Winners of the $10k ISBN visualization bounty (annas-archive.org)
A few months ago we announced a $10,000 bounty to make the best possible visualization of our data showing the ISBN space.
Data Visualization, Bounties, ISBN
20 points by c-fe 61 days ago | 2 comments
Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space (phiresky.github.io)
Libraries have been trying to collect humanity’s knowledge almost since the invention of writing. In the digital age, it might actually be possible to create a comprehensive collection of all human writing that meets certain criteria. That’s what shadow libraries do - collect and share as many books as possible.
Libraries, Digital Libraries, Data Visualization, ISBN
486 points by phiresky 84 days ago | 91 comments
Isbntools (github.com/xlcnd)
isbntools provides several useful methods and functions to validate, clean, transform, hyphenate and get metadata for ISBN strings.
Libraries, Software, ISBN, Metadata, String Manipulation
6 points by kamaraju 90 days ago | 0 comments
Visualizing All ISBNs (annas-archive.org)
This picture is 1000×800 pixels. Each pixel represents 2,500 ISBNs. If we have a file for an ISBN, we make that pixel more green. If we know an ISBN has been issued, but we don’t have a matching file, we make it more red.
Data Visualization, ISBN, Information Design
393 points by RyanShook 106 days ago | 139 comments