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June 25, 2004

BookRank 0.9

Well, it only took a few days for my BookRank to be the number one result on google and it hasn't even found bookrank.net yet.

I have been playing around with the BookRank algorithm on a few source books:

BookRank
1) Take a single book from Amazon as a root.
2) Take the recommended books for that book.
3) Repeat until you have reached a distance of 20 from the original book.
4) Add up the number of recommendations for each book.
5) Calculate the BookRank from the Distance, Recommendations and SalesRank
6) Display the 50 (or less) books with the highest BookRank.

Usability
The mighty Jakob heads this list that spans subjects ranginf from Design to Dreamweaver to XML.

Baseball
Is it really Rounders by another name?

Edward Tufte
Visualise that.

Stupid White Men
Politics through satire.

Game Design
Chris Crawfors wrote the definitive book, but what are the other distinctive game design books?

Mythical Man Month
How did that project get to be 5 years late?

Chariot of the Gods
Conspiracy theories and cover ups litter this list.

War Of The Worlds
Classic adventure and much, much more.

If anyone wants to donate a BookRank logo I would be eternally grateful as I am an inept graphic designer.

See what I mean?

June 25, 2004 in Books | Permalink

Comments

I also am an inept graphic designer, but here's what 10 minutes in Fireworks produced.

It's usability and books. What more could you want (besides something good)?

Posted by: Matthew Oliphant | 26 Jun 2004 17:24:03