https://github.com/johannaschmidle/bookauthors
Explored a book sales database. Cleaned data using Excel and created an interactive dashboard to analyze author popularity, ratings, and sales trends. The project highlighted key insights such as sales performance and rating distributions [Excel]
https://github.com/johannaschmidle/bookauthors
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Explored a book sales database. Cleaned data using Excel and created an interactive dashboard to analyze author popularity, ratings, and sales trends. The project highlighted key insights such as sales performance and rating distributions [Excel]
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/johannaschmidle/bookauthors
- Owner: johannaschmidle
- Created: 2024-07-13T21:13:49.000Z (11 months ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-07-13T22:02:34.000Z (11 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-11T01:59:45.842Z (5 months ago)
- Topics: author-sales, book-sales, books, data-analysis, data-visualization, excel
- Homepage: https://johannaschmidle.github.io/books.html
- Size: 1.03 MB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Authors: AuthorsProject.xlsx
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README
# BookAuthors
## Motivation
This project is inspired by my love of reading. I wanted to explore a database of book sales information, with a particular focus on books released after the year 2000. More specifically, I was curious about author information (I wanted to see how my favourite authors are doing). I wanted get insights about an authors popularity, general rating, and sales trends. I used excel to perform a general cleaning of the database and then developed an interactive dashboard to present my findings.
**Goal:** Gain insights into Author Popularity and Trends
## Task List
1. Clean Table (_Cleaned Table:_ [AuthorsProjectTable.csv](https://github.com/johannaschmidle/BookAuthors/blob/main/AuthorsProjectTable.csv))
2. Create interactive Excel dashboard ([AuthorsProject.xlsx](https://github.com/johannaschmidle/BookAuthors/blob/main/AuthorsProject.xlsx))
## Metrics and Dimensions
- **Average Book Rating:** The average rating given to the book by readers
- **Units Sold:** Total number of copies sold
- **Gross Sales:** The total sales revenue generated by each book
- **Publisher Revenue:** The revenue earned by publishers from selling each book
## Summary of Insights
**Note:** You can analyze any author in the list but here is the summary for the author Stephen King
#### Average Book Rating
- Stephen King has an average book rating of around 3.95/5★
- His highest rated book is _The Dark Tower_ (2004) with a rating of 4.27★
- His lowest rated book is Cell (2006) with a rating of 3.64★
#### Units Sold
- He has a total of 61,052 units sold
- He sold the most copies of the book _Joyland_ (2013), with 42,768 copies sold
- He sold the least copies of _Everythings Eventual: 14 Dark Tales_ (2002), with 106 copies sold
#### Gross Sales
- He has a total $11,862.35 in gross sales
- His highest grossing book is _Cell_ (2006), with $5,933.78 in gross sales
- His lowest grossing book is _Finders Keepers_ (2015), with $107.90 in gross sales
#### Publisher Revenue
- He earned a total of $6,178.03 in publisher revenue
- The book that earned the highest publisher revenue is _Cell_ (2006), earning $3,560.27 in publisher revenue
- The book that earned the lowest publisher revenue is _Everythings Eventual: 14 Dark Tales_ (2002), earning $190.00 in publisher revenue (some books were missing this information)
#### Other
- His most used publisher is Amazon Digital Services INC.
- He has 10 recorded books in this database
## Recommended Next Steps
- Investigate how book sale prices correlate with copies sold and revenue to optimize pricing strategies.
- Merge with an updated database to include more authors and books for comprehensive comparative analysis.
## Data
The dataset used in this project is available publicly on DataWorld: [https://data.world/josh-nbu/books](https://data.world/josh-nbu/books)
## Technologies
- Excel