User Data Snapshot of Atlas Shrugged

Peter Kay
1 min readDec 10, 2015

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After taking a look at ncvrs user preferences surrounding The Catcher in the Rye, I decided to focus the data lens on another notorious book, Atlas Shrugged. Thanks to some good advice, I went and stripped out the classics that almost everyone likes (To Kill a Mockingbird et. al.) Here’s what I found out.

The man who refuses to swipe, who neither agrees nor disagrees….

People who dislike Atlas Shrugged like

  1. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
  2. Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth
  3. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
  4. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
  5. Texts from Jane Eyre, Mallory Ortberg

People who like Atlas Shrugged dislike

  1. The View from Castle Rock, Alice Munro
  2. Illustrated Book of Genesis, R. Crumb
  3. The Bat, Jo Nesbø
  4. The Rotters’ Club, Jonathan Coe
  5. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis

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Peter Kay

Problem solver: Product, Data Science, Knowledge Management. Tried a couple of startups: failure is informative but not fun.