I had to learn a web scraping process and to practice I thought I'd attempt to grab all the Goodreads Award data. I picked Goodreads mainly because the pages with the vote totals have a regular structure but are also a pain to deal with if you just manu…
I had to learn a web scraping process and to practice I thought I'd attempt to grab all the Goodreads Award data. I picked Goodreads mainly because the pages with the vote totals have a regular structure but are also a pain to deal with if you just manually went and copy-pasted the page. Anyway, I think it largely worked but in some cases there are gaps because if the page was slow to load I set things to leave that data blank rather than throw an error.
Anyway, here's a table comparing science fiction with Romance which proves that numbers can represent quantities and not much else. The values are the total votes of the top 10 finalists.
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