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Life & fun · February 14, 2021

An interactive map of the 1M most-assigned books in college syllabi

The citation graph of the ~1M most-assigned books and articles (node2vec -> UMAP).

An interactive map of the 1M most-assigned books in college syllabi launched on February 14, 2021 with 21 votes, #1,150 of 3,133 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

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An interactive map visualization showing the one million books most frequently assigned across college syllabi. The tool helps students, educators, and researchers explore which texts appear most often in academic coursework and discover connections between different fields of study. Users can search, filter, and navigate the collection to understand reading patterns across higher education.

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