To make it really obvious why: Put in something technical, like 'Cloud computing'. You'll see all the Dummies books clustered into one group, all the legal books in another group, all the programming books in another cluster, and so on – making it easy to navigate and get an overview of the mainstream literature available in a particular niche.
The same thing works, of course, for fiction: put in something like 'Mirrorland' and you'll see respective niche clusters form around similar books.
The power behind this awesome tool? Nothing more than all those 'Customers who bought this item also bought…' suggestions from Amazon. Nothing more powerful than the hive mind!
/via +Paul Christen
Amazon Products Visualization – YASIV
Amazon visualization shows similar items based on ‘Customers who bought this also bought…’ data from Amazon
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+Sophie Wrobel Thank you! I'm working on it :).
+Andrei Kashcha nice to meet you- keep up the good work! i suppose you would be able to help answer the request for filtering search results that came up?
I like the application, and I am convinced on the promise of visualization. I believe the best is yet to come. However, I rarely see the purpose behind most visualizations. We have to ask, what value do they bring? How does this delivery of search results be any better than the usual way?
similar to linkedin maps..@ linkedinlabs
+Sean G don't think Google came up with this. The first version of the Amazon Spring Graph (that's the type of graph) was developed in 2006/2007 using Adobe Flex. It's been out there for a few years now…
Must learned that from …. Ummmm. Google?
+Sophie Wrobel Thank you very much for sharing! I'm the author of that tool, and it makes me soo happy to read such a wonderful feedback! I'm very excited 🙂
It's not too bad actually, just click on the title and customer reviews, and the star rating is right there.
is that like what Google did for music on the Play Store?
I really like spring graphs for showing relationships.
This is a great little tool. I find hunting for new books really difficult, I tend to go for loads by the same author before moving on to the next one.
Wish it showed ratings too (yeah I know ratings are not reliable but it's still helpful)
Pretty sure I watched a video of Google launching this type of system for 4.2 with music and books.
"How do you find good books?"… Watch the movie!!
What a great app!!!
Many thanks to the developer. This address is bookmarked.
Love this +Sophie Wrobel thanks for sharing it 🙂
+Francois Demers I didn't notice anything either – even with a physical book. What evil did you see?
(I did have to click on DE, if you mean lack of any related objects, as obviously a German title has no related titles in USA, which seems to be the default on Yasiv)
I think evil is not on Kindle yet
+Francois Demers
I did click on a book that I purchased, a kindle book. I don't see the evil… What am I missing?
Something evil is going on here… Click on a book you purchased.
+Francois Demers <giggle> I did see Finding Nemo – only one away from The Film Which Deserves No Mention (and which I still have not seen).
+Francois Demers I would be miserable without The Bourne trilogy! [and I guess it's only there because the DVD pack is named "trilogy"…]
Very good at finding every film you do not want to see as well:
http://www.yasiv.com/#/Search?q=The%20Dark%20Knight%20Rises&category=Video&lang=US
(+Sophie Wrobel +Alexander Becker)
+Jurate Stanaityte agree, a filter would be more effective than anything else. I do however find it useful for exploration – because it does end up clustering results related to specific genres (or niches); but 'drilling down' into a genre, difficulty level, etc. would be wonderful!
I don't understand why Amazon doesn't offer this type of UI. I understand that they may need to keep the "old school" UI for some people, but why not let this exist for the advanced user?
Very strange.
OK.. now I tried it. It failed. I guess it's because it uses sales data, and not genre or anything else book-specific. Nothing better than goodreads.com .
Amazing tool, I have several authors whose style & subjects I really like, this will ease the hunt for new brain-food, thanks +Sophie Wrobel !
here comes a new time-killer app for lovers of books… 😉