From Reading to Recommending - an Introduction to NarraLune by Stefanie Wedel
Details
As a lifelong bookworm and serial note-taker, our speaker Stefanie spent years collecting insights from literary podcasts, magazine previews, and personal reading lists. Things got even more interesting with the discovery of reading challenges, such as “read a book with over 500 pages” or “a book featuring magical creatures that aren’t dragons.”
The result of trying to organize all of this? NarraLune — a Python-based application designed to connect a curated book database with an intelligent matching framework.
In this talk, we’ll explore how NarraLune:
- Uses structured SQL filtering to manage and query book data
- Applies genre inference to enrich metadata
- Integrates generative language models to recommend books for diverse and creative challenge prompts
Stefanie will walk us through the concept and architecture of the system, share practical insights into Python and AI integration, and reflect on how personal interests can evolve into meaningful technical projects.
No coding knowledge is required to follow the talk
This meetup will take place in the reading room (Lesesaal) of Zentralbibliothek Zürich.
Agenda
18:00 Arrival
18:15 Talk and discussion
19:15 Wrap up
All genders welcome!
We expect all participants of our meetup to abide by the PyLadies code of conduct: http://www.pyladies.com/CodeOfConduct/