You want to write a bestselling novel

Parallel Coordinates Plot

Use the purple bar on the vertical lines to filter by results that meet all criteria.

To create a new filter, or to change the size of an existing one, click and drag on a vertical line.

To delete a filter, click it once.

To move a filter, click and drag it.

Bubble Graph

Bubble size is determined by copies sold.

Bubble color is determined by genre.

Hover over a bubble to learn more about that data point.

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Some notable results:

• Most best-selling books were released between 1925 and now.
• The best-selling genres appear to be Children's, Historical Fiction and Fantasy.
• Most best-selling books have between 100 and 500 pages (an exception to this is Children's books, which have an approximate range of 0-150).

Violin Graph

This violin plot shows the distribution of page count by language.

The plot has a horizontal scroll bar so you can view the rest of the languages.

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Some notable results:

• If writing in English, aim to write about 350 pages.
• If writing in English, try to avoid going over 700 pages.
• If writing in French, German, or Japanese, try to avoid going over 400 pages.
• Russian books had the largest range of page counts.
• If writing in French, aim for about 300 pages.

Boxplot

This boxplot shows the distribution of copies sold by language.

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Notice how the French column's upper quartile appears much higher than other languages. This is due to the low number of data points of French books, combined with one of the data points having sold 200 million copies.

It is important to note that while the English column may be incredibly accurate, not many other columns are, due to only having a few data points.

Something that could alleviate this discrepancy would to be gather a certain number of data points for each language. However, this would have the side effect of making it seem as though a higher proportion of the bestselling books of all time were languages other than English.