This project examines a list of best-selling books to find important trends and information in the book marketplace. The aim is to find top authors, genres, and publishers by sales volume.
Based on the analysis, some of the key insights include:
- Top-Selling Authors: The most successful author by total sales is J.K Rowling.
- Most Popular Genres: The top-selling genres by volume are General and Literary Fiction, Children's Fiction, Crime-Thriller and adventure.
- Prolific Publishers: J.K Rowling has the most books on the bestseller list, indicating their strong presence in the market.
- Sales Distribution: A box plot of sales volume shows that the majority of books have sales below a certain threshold, but there are a few significant outliers with extremely high sales.
This repository contains the following files:
best_selling_books_2.csv: The raw dataset used for the analysis.books.ipynb: The Jupyter Notebook containing all the code for data cleaning, analysis, and visualization.README.md: This file, which provides an overview of the project.
- Language: Python 3
- Libraries: Pandas, Matplotlib