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Entity Store of Books in Stephen Wolfram's Library

Source Notebook

An entity store of books in Stephen Wolfram’s library that were used during in the creation of A New Kind of Science (Wolfram, 2002).

This is not Stephen Wolfram's complete library; only books used in one way or another for A New Kind of Science.

ISBNs for books were converted to OpenLibrary IDs, from which additional properties were deduced.

(1 entity types, 2611 entities, 9 properties)

Examples

Basic Examples

Retrieve the ResourceObject:

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ResourceObject["Entity Store of Books in Stephen Wolfram's Library"]
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View the data:

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ResourceData["Entity Store of Books in Stephen Wolfram's Library"]
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Register the EntityStore:

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EntityRegister[ ResourceData["Entity Store of Books in Stephen Wolfram's Library"]]
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Analysis

Find the total number of books:

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Length@EntityList["SWLibraryBook"]
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Get the available properties for the entity store:

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EntityProperties["SWLibraryBook"]
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Find the distribution of the books published after 1950:

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DateHistogram@ EntityValue[ EntityClass["SWLibraryBook", EntityProperty["SWLibraryBook", "Year"] -> (# > DateObject[{1949}, "Year", "Gregorian", -4.`] &)], EntityProperty["SWLibraryBook", "Year"] ]
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Find the top 10 countries of publication:

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TakeLargest[ Counts[Flatten@ EntityValue["SWLibraryBook", EntityProperty["SWLibraryBook", "PublicationCountries"]]], 10]
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Find books published in Ireland:

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EntityClass["SWLibraryBook", EntityProperty["SWLibraryBook", "PublicationCountries"] -> ContainsAny[{Entity["Country", "Ireland"]}]] // EntityList
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Find countries with the smallest numbers of books published there:

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TakeSmallest[ Counts[Flatten@ EntityValue["SWLibraryBook", EntityProperty["SWLibraryBook", "PublicationCountries"]]], 10]
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Find the book published in Uzbekistan:

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EntityValue[ EntityClass["SWLibraryBook", EntityProperty["SWLibraryBook", "PublicationCountries"] -> ContainsAny[{Entity["Country", "Uzbekistan"]}]], "Title"]
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Wolfram Research, "Entity Store of Books in Stephen Wolfram's Library" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2017)   https://doi.org/10.24097/wolfram.60032.data

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  • Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research