Books about US politicsCompiled by Valdis Krebs Nodes represent books about US politics sold by the online booksellerAmazon.com. Edges represent frequent co-purchasing of books by the samebuyers, as indicated by the "customers who bought this book also boughtthese other books" feature on Amazon. Nodes have been given values "l", "n", or "c" to indicate whether they are"liberal", "neutral", or "conservative". These alignments were assignedseparately by Mark Newman based on a reading of the descriptions andreviews of the books posted on Amazon. These data should be cited as V. Krebs, unpublished,http://www.orgnet.com/.

I wanted to find good data about representation and diversity in literature, which brought me to the following page of the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC): https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/literature-resources/ccbc-diversity-statistics/. The following is data on books by and about Black, Indigenous and People of Color published for children and teens compiled by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

There are two .csv files in the data set. One shows books received by the CCBC from US publishers per year that are authored and/or illustrated by a Black/African/Indigenous/Asian/Pacific Islander/Latinx person, and the other shows books received by the CCBC from US publishers per year that feature a BIPOC character. Further explanation can be found at the CCBC FAQ page.

Please note that for 2018 and 2019, the below .csv represent Asian/Pacific Islander people as one column, which is how the CCBC published the data between 2002-2017. Also note that the attached data are not the entire data collected by the CCBC. The CCBC also collects books from international publishers, and since 2018, the CCBC has been publishing data about books by/about Arabs.

All data was collected by the CCBC. Please see the following page (with the complete data) about how to cite the data in your publications/blogs/notebooks: https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/literature-resources/ccbc-diversity-statistics/books-by-about-poc-fnn/.

I am curious to see what sorts of visualizations people can make in exploratory analysis of this data! Also, can you predict how many BIPOC books the CCBC will receive in 2020? What happens when you study against US population data?

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