Summary

Ratings of books by readers

License

ODbL

Dependencies

Tags

collaborative-filtering recommendation

Attribute Types

Integer

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Original Data Format

arff

Name

book-crossing

Version mldata

0

Comment

This data was obtained from http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~cziegler/BX/

Collected by Cai-Nicolas Ziegler in a 4-week crawl (August / September 2004) from the Book-Crossing community with kind permission from Ron Hornbaker, CTO of Humankind Systems. Contains 278,858 users (anonymized but with demographic information) providing 1,149,780 ratings (explicit / implicit) about 271,379 books. (Note from the guy that converted it to arff format: I'm not sure where those values came from. The data does not seem to match them.)

[ ! ] Freely available for research use when acknowledged with the following reference (further details on the dataset are given in this publication):

* Improving Recommendation Lists Through Topic Diversification,
  Cai-Nicolas Ziegler, Sean M. McNee, Joseph A. Konstan, Georg Lausen; Proceedings of the 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW '05), May 10-14, 2005, Chiba, Japan. To appear.

  Download: [ PDF Pre-Print ]

As a courtesy, if you use the data, I would appreciate knowing your name, what research group you are in, and the publications that may result.

Names

userid,bookid,rating,

Types

1. numeric
2. numeric
3. numeric

Data (first 10 data points)

userid	bookid	rating
0	0	0
1	1	5
2	2	0
3	3	3
3	4	6
4	5	0
5	6	8
6	7	6
7	8	7
8	9	10
...	...	...

Description

Collected by Cai-Nicolas Ziegler in a 4-week crawl (August / September 2004) from the Book-Crossing community with kind permission from Ron Hornbaker, CTO of Humankind Systems. (See http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~cziegler/BX/)

To give attribution, as required by the ODbL license, please cite the following reference: Improving Recommendation Lists Through Topic Diversification, Cai-Nicolas Ziegler, Sean M. McNee, Joseph A. Konstan, Georg Lausen; Proceedings of the 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW '05), May 10-14, 2005, Chiba, Japan.

URLs

http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~cziegler/BX/

Publications

Data Source

http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~cziegler/BX/

Measurement Details

To simplify analysis, the original user IDs have been replaced with integer values from 0 to 105282 and the original book ISBN numbers have been replaced with integer values from 0 to 339865. In both cases, all integer values in those ranges occur at least once. The data in its original form is available at http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~cziegler/BX/, and additional meta-data is available with it.

Usage Scenario

Evaluating the effectiveness of a collaborative-filtering recommendation system.

revision 1

by mgashler on 2011-09-14 15:17

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