The statistic shows data on the share of kids who have read a Harry Potter book in the United States as of October 2016, by age group. Overall, 37 percent of kids in the U.S. have read a Harry Potter book. According to the source, 49 percent of kids aged 15 to 17 have read a Harry Potter book.

As of August 2018, a staggering half a billion Harry Potter books had sold worldwide, 180 million of which were sold in the United States. British author J.K. Rowling published her first book, ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ in the United Kingdom in 1997, and the American edition was released in the following year – with some changes.

Changes to J.K. Rowling’s novels outside the UK

In the United States, India, and Pakistan, the title ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ was altered to ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’. The change was made after Arthur Levine from Scholastic stated that he believed the word ‘philosopher’ was too ‘archaic’ for readers and expressed concerns that readers would not relate to the book’s original title. Rowling herself has since said she regretted allowing this change but did not feel she was in a strong enough position to challenge it at the time. Whether the change had a significant effect on readers choosing to buy and read the book is unclear, but the book remains popular on a global level decades after its publication. As of November 2018, close to one million Goodreads members worldwide included the novel on their ‘to be read’ lists.

Other changes made were of the linguistic nature, to cater for readers used to American English. For the benefit of U.S. readers, the British word ‘mum’, as well as Irish term ‘mam’ used by the character Seamus Finnigan, were changed to ‘mom’. Other words were also changed to suit an American audience, including ‘jumper’ to ‘sweater’, ‘sweets’ to ‘candy’, and ‘windscreen’ to ‘windshield’.

Another change which affected the books and their author on a global level was the creation of Rowling’s pen name. Rather than publishing the books under the name Jo or Joanne Rowling, the author was advised to use initials to disguise her gender in order to appeal to boys as well as girls. It was thought that despite the book being considered suitable and relatable for both genders, that young boys may not choose or relate to a book written by a woman. Years later, favorability of J.K. Rowling among men and women is almost identical.

The statistic shows the share readers of Harry Potter according to the number of books read in Italy in 2016. According to the survey, 73 percent of respondents read Harry Potter, and 43 percent of them read over 4 books of the series.

UPDATE 2: Since I was having encoding errors when doing EDA, I theorized my problem was at the source of my dataset: Google Sheets. I had originally created a Google Sheets doc and exported it into .csv and .txt files. Maybe that was giving me my encoding errors. I created a new .txt doc ("harrypotter_dataset.txt") -manually, not exporting it this time- to test out this theory. Thank you for your patience with me.

UPDATE: I think it'd be easier if the index, budget, author, producer, etc. are the columns instead of rows. I updated this dataset to include a transposed version of the original documents. Thanks for your patience, as I am a beginner data analyst and still learning.

For this dataset, I switched the X and Y axis (Columns and Rows), since there are only 8 installments. I figured scrolling through vertically would be more natural and instinctive than horizontally.

For the books, I included statistics for the number of chapters and data for illustrators. For the movies; there are statistics for runtimes and budgets and data for producers, directors, etc. I did not include the number of pages because that would depend on which version or edition you are reading. There are VARIOUS among VARIOUS versions and editions of Harry Potter.

From Wiki

Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The main story arc concerns Harry's struggle against Lord Voldemort, a dark wizard who intends to become immortal, overthrow the wizard governing body known as the Ministry of Magic and subjugate all wizards and Muggles (non-magical people).

Since the release of the first novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, on 26 June 1997, the books have found immense popularity, positive reviews, and commercial success worldwide. They have attracted a wide adult audience as well as younger readers and are often considered cornerstones of modern young adult literature.[2] As of February 2018, the books have sold more than 500 million copies worldwide, making them the best-selling book series in history, and have been translated into eighty languages.[3] The last four books consecutively set records as the fastest-selling books in history, with the final instalment selling roughly 2.7 million copies in the United Kingdom and 8.3 million copies in the United States within twenty-four hours of its release.

The series was originally published in English by two major publishers, Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom and Scholastic Press in the United States. All versions around the world are printed by Grafica Veneta in Italy.[4]

A play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, based on a story co-written by Rowling, premiered in London on 30 July 2016 at the Palace Theatre, and its script was published by Little, Brown. The original seven books were adapted into an eight-part namesake film series by Warner Bros. Pictures, which is the third-highest-grossing film series of all time as of February 2020. In 2016, the total value of the Harry Potter franchise was estimated at $25 billion,[5] making Harry Potter one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time.

Play with it as you like.

Source:Goodreads

This dataset is about book subjects. It has 2 rows and is filtered where the books is Harry Potter : the ultimate book of facts : unofficial & unauthorised. It features 10 columns including number of authors, number of books, earliest publication date, and latest publication date.

Subjects read Chapter 9 of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone one word at a time while their activity was recorded using an Elekta MEG scanner. Words were presented for 0.5 seconds each. The Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh Institutional Review Boards have approved and overseen this study. This study was performed by Tom Mitchell's lab at Carnegie Mellon University. To access this data, please fill the following form, we will contact you shortly with more information: https://forms.gle/9pjRk6B7aw79w2xs6

This data was used in the following publications: Wehbe, L., Vaswani, A., Knight, K., & Mitchell, T. (2014, October). Aligning context-based statistical models of language with brain activity during reading. In Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) (pp. 233-243). Toneva, M., & Wehbe, L. (2019). Interpreting and improving natural-language processing (in machines) with natural language-processing (in the brain). Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 32. Schwartz, D., Toneva, M., & Wehbe, L. (2019). Inducing brain-relevant bias in natural language processing models. Advances in neural information processing systems, 32. Toneva, M., Mitchell, T. M., & Wehbe, L. (2022). Combining computational controls with natural text reveals new aspects of meaning composition. BioRxiv, 2020-09.
The files shared here include a time array indicating the timing of each column of data, and a label array indicating the order of each word in the stimulus text. To access the full MEG data, please fill the form above.

The survey shows data on the familiarity with Harry Potter books/movies in the United States as of January 2016, by age group. During a survey, 56 percent of respondents aged 30 to 44 stated they were familiar with Harry Potter through books or movies.

Explore Readers in wonderland : the liberating worlds of fantasy fiction : from Dorothy to Harry Potter through data from visualizations to datasets, all based on diverse sources.

The statistic shows the words which come to the mind of readers when thinking about Harry Potter in Italy in 2016. According to the survey, 86 percent of respondents thought about the word "magic" and 70 percent about "struggle between good and evil".

This dataset consists of raw EEG data from 40 participants while they were reading excerpts from Harry Potter, Harry Potter Fanfiction, and Bad Fiction.

The statistic shows the book genres students would like to read at school in Italy in 2015. As of the survey period, about 27 percent of the respondents wanted to read bestsellers like Harry Potter; while 15 percent preferred the great classics of literature.

Literary reception is a special case of language processing. The judgment of literature reveals deep social patterns with embodied cognition. In this study, we investigate how differences in literary quality resonate in the human brain. Modifying a series of stimuli previously used in studies of the emotional potential of Harry Potter, we alternate passages from the original novels with passages from imitative and intentionally poorly written fanfiction. EEG data shows how the three text types are processed differently by the brain. Comparing the brain activity of the readers for the various text types, we see a difference in the absolute power but not in the relative power of the frequency bands. Reading badfiction evokes the lowest activity. However, the functionality of this activity is the same for all texts since the relative power of the frequency bands does not differ. When comparing the participant groups, we observe the opposite situation. Here, different relative powers of the frequency bands reflect different judgments and reading habits of participants. For example, fans of Harry Potter, regular readers of fantasy texts, and generally frequent readers read the texts more attentively, which is reflected in a pronounced relative activity of the theta and alpha frequency bands. Non-frequent readers and readers who are not devoted to Harry Potter and fantasy in general have increased activity in the delta frequency band. This suggests their saliency detection is more prominent because they are less familiar with reading or the subject matter. To support our findings, we use the EEG data without averaging over stimuli and participants, capturing the participants' responses on the level of individual stimuli. A Kohonen self-organizing map trained on this more extensive data finds reliably detectable differences in the responses to passages from the original Harry Potter novels and fan- and badfiction. Our study allows for an interpretation of an adaptive brain response. Readers who enjoy Harry Potter or have experience with the fantasy genre show different reactions from those who do not. Thus, badfiction appears to be processed differently by the human brain, but not for all readers in the same way.

Bloomsbury Publishing, famous for the Harry Potter series, secures a long-term agreement with Amazon, strengthening its market position and expanding its audience reach.

The statistic presents all-time world's bestselling books as of May 2012. J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series, which is the most successful movie franchise in the world, ranked third with 400 million copies sold worldwide.

This statistic shows the number of Goodreads members who included selected young adult fiction books on their 'to be read' lists worldwide as of November 2018. The data shows that John Green's novel 'The Fault In Our Stars' was top of the list, with over 985 thousand Goodreads users having marked the book as 'to be read'. 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone', the first novel in the Harry Potter franchise written by J.K. Rowling, ranked fifth in the list and was featured on the 'to be read' lists of almost 646 thousand Goodreads members.

Explore Harry Potter : the complete quiz book through data • Key facts: author, publication date, book publisher, book series, book subjects • Real-time news, visualizations and datasets

This graph shows the results of a survey on the favorite books of children in Germany in 2022, by age group. During the survey period it was found that 21 percent of 10-11 year-olds read a book from the Harry Potter series.

The production budget for the first feature in the Harry Potter movie franchise ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’ was 125 million U.S. dollars, half the costs of producing ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’. The first film performed better at the global box office, but both films earned well over 900 million dollars each worldwide, along with ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’, ‘Order of the Phoenix’ and the first ‘Deathly Hallows’ movie. The highest grossing Harry Potter movie is ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2’, which generated over 1.34 billion dollars in global box office revenue.

Harry Potter

British author J.K. Rowling made waves in the children’s book industry upon the release of her debut novel ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ in the UK back in 1997 and is now one the most well-known authors in the world. Rowling’s ‘Harry Potter’ books are adored by readers across generations all around the globe, and despite diehard fans having their reservations about the movie adaptations, all the films performed well at the box office.

The first movie was released in 2001, the same year as ‘Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring’ – another favorite among fantasy film fans. The Harry Potter movie franchise culminated with the eagerly anticipated adaptations of the ‘Deathly Hallows’ book, with the last film being released almost ten years after ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’. As is often the case in the movie industry, the final book was spread over two separate films in order to do justice to its length and detail.

Another common practice in the film industry is to release prequels to already successful movies, creating lengthy billion-dollar franchises. Significant movie franchises with prequels range from ‘Alien’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’ to ‘X-Men’ and ‘Star Wars’, and the release of ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them’ in 2016 marked the first of five planned Harry Potter prequels. These, along with the original Harry Potter movies, collectively make up fictional universe the Wizarding World, which is one of the highest grossing film franchises of all time.

The best-selling audiobook in the United States in 2019 based on unit sales was 'Where the Crawdads Sing' by Delia Owens, with over 1.05 million units sold that year. Owens' book even outperformed Michelle Obama's 'Becoming', and sold smore than double the units of famous Harry Potter book 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'.