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Paula Sims

(877 posts) Sun Oct 29, 2017, 06:22 PM Oct 2017

Where do I go to get datasets for banned book information?

Hello all,
Sorry if this is the wrong forum to ask this question - please let me know where to better post it.

I'm working an on-line course about data visualization and want my final project to be about banned books - historical, topic, location, etc. The question is - can you recommend a single data source that would have that? I can find the charted results but I need to present my own charts & graphs.

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Thanks!

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Where do I go to get datasets for banned book information? (Original Post) Paula Sims Oct 2017 OP

Try this... billh58 Oct 2017 #1

Thanks - I can work with that Paula Sims Oct 2017 #2

There are links to billh58 Oct 2017 #3

Are you using Tableau? Are you taking Udacity's online course? Yavin4 Oct 2017 #4

Contact the American Library Association - Librarians HATE having books banned csziggy Oct 2017 #5

billh58

(6,635 posts)

1. Try this...

Reply to Paula Sims (Original post)

Sun Oct 29, 2017, 06:28 PM

Oct 2017

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_governments

Paula Sims

(877 posts)

2. Thanks - I can work with that

Reply to billh58 (Reply #1)

Sun Oct 29, 2017, 07:41 PM

Oct 2017

Don't know why I didn't think of it. I guess I was thinking more of larger stored datasets but I can work with this.

billh58

(6,635 posts)

3. There are links to

Reply to Paula Sims (Reply #2)

Sun Oct 29, 2017, 08:27 PM

Oct 2017

other sources on that page...

Yavin4

(35,440 posts)

4. Are you using Tableau? Are you taking Udacity's online course?

Reply to Paula Sims (Original post)

Sun Oct 29, 2017, 08:48 PM

Oct 2017

As to your question, I don't know of a single source that has/is tracking that information. Also, I don't know the quality nor the form of such data.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)

5. Contact the American Library Association - Librarians HATE having books banned

Reply to Paula Sims (Original post)

Mon Oct 30, 2017, 12:24 AM

Oct 2017

And I think they might be able to help you locate sources.

Here is a link to a search on their site to get you started: http://www.ala.org/search-results?as_q=banned%20books

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