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Reading the Dataset

Explore how to read and work with Amazon's bestselling books dataset in CSV format using Java. Understand the structure of the dataset, including columns like name, author, rating, and price, and learn how this data is stored as a 2D array. This lesson helps you become familiar with handling real-world datasets as part of your AP Computer Science projects.

Dataset: Amazon’s top 50 bestselling books

This is a Kaggle dataset in .csv format. It includes the information on name, author, user rating, reviews, price, year, and genre of 550 different books. So, data is arranged using the seven columns below.

Columns Description Min value recorded Max value recorded
Name Name of the book - -
Author Author of the book - -
User Rating Amazon user rating 3.33.3 4.94.9
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