Author average rating for all the authors in my library

I have asked for this before but do not know if it is coming. I can really use a list of authors in my library and the average rating for each the author's total works.
Having their picture, or non-picture is not of use to me in my research on authors.

Asking does not always mean getting.
Not sure what research you're doing, but since star ratings are arbitrary and subjective, I'm not sure what use they could really be.

>2 gilroy: All I can tell you is that the author average provided on every individual author page by LibraryThing confirms the average of all the books in the authors book set. I find them incredibly useful to me and informative in the quality of writing for the author. You must not believe in the value of individual book ratings either.

>1 JFB87: I can see that it would be a fun information to have but why not the distribution of the ratings too?
That would make it easy to see the difference between someone writing some good and some bad books versus someone writing a lot of average books? (Worst case would probably be someone with a lot of books but no ratings :-)

>4 bnielsen: That is an excellent idea and would appreciate having that also

>5 JoeB1934: I got a bit inspired by this, so I made a tool that takes a bunch of lines and expects the first column to contain work_id's, say 292137 and then looks up corresponding work page, i.e. https://www.librarything.com/work/292137 and extracts the average rating and inserts that as a new column.

So I get something like this for the Gideon books by J. J. Marric.

3.58	292143	En uge med Gideon
4	292136	Gideon og sabotagen
3.57	292141	Gideons sport
3	292137	Gideons fælde
3.43	292130	Gideon fra Scotland Yard
3.94	292140	Gideon og floden
3.6	292135	Gideons mandskab
3.33	292139	Gideon løber en risiko
3.88	292133	Gideon og kidnapperen
3.37	292132	Gideon og mordbrænderen
3.63	292144	Gideons vrede
3.54	566217	Gideons nat
3.44	115374	En måned med Gideon

That can be sorted as:

3	292137	Gideons fælde
3.6	292135	Gideons mandskab
3.33	292139	Gideon løber en risiko
3.37	292132	Gideon og mordbrænderen
3.43	292130	Gideon fra Scotland Yard
3.44	115374	En måned med Gideon
3.54	566217	Gideons nat
3.57	292141	Gideons sport
3.58	292143	En uge med Gideon
3.63	292144	Gideons vrede
3.88	292133	Gideon og kidnapperen
3.94	292140	Gideon og floden
4	292136	Gideon og sabotagen

The only thing wrong with this is that the numbers are very small. The first one Gideons fælde is owned by 44 members but only one has rated it and that was myself, so it is not a surprise to me that I didn't like that book so much.

To sum it up for now: I'm not convinced that we have the numbers to do anything interesting.

I do know that this is not what you asked for in >1 JFB87:, so I'll stop hijacking this thread.