Don Swaim Collection data dashboard prototype

Sets of interviews and their derived Book Beat feature broadcasts

Persons interviewed

30-60 minute interviews

3-5 minute Book Beat feature broadcasts transmitted by WCBS and nationally syndicated

Book Beat was produced and broadcast from 1983-1993

According to Wikidata, most of Don Swaim's interviewees are writers, like novelists, screenwriters and journalists.

All of Don Swaim's interviews are in English, but Wikidata reports that some of his interviewees have also written or speak other languages.

Wikidata reports that about 60% of Swaim's interviewees are male, 19% female and 22% unknown.

See a table of every span of time mentioned in Book Beat as detected by a machine learning model (spaCy's en_core_web_md).

See an ArcGIS Dashboard of every place mentioned in Book Beat as detected by spaCy's machine learning models.

See a network graph connecting interviewees and awards Wikidata reports they have won.

Download Don Swaim Collection metadata and transcripts for your own research.

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• 📇 swaim-metadata.json
• 📝 book-beat-transcripts.zip
• 📝 interview-transcripts.zip