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For the midterm assignment, I decided to create a network analysis of the different characters featured on the covers of five Uncanny X-Men books. While the final product is fairly simple, there is a large amount of data cleaning, trial and error, and other tribulations to create. I started by downloading the CSV <\/a>from the google drive of data sets and imported it to excel. The data set included the book issue, the characters on the cover, and the cover artist. After looking at the data set for a bit and understanding the patterns, I decided that I wanted to do a network analysis of the different characters on books by different cover artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are many Uncanny X-Men books (before doing this assignment, I didn\u2019t even know that these books existed), so I decided to use the even numbered books as there is a range of artists with some overlap. The data was set up in a way where each book issue had all of its characters in one column, so I cut the dataset down to the even books and split up the characters so that each character was its own unique value. I then used the network analysis tool in Flourish Studio<\/a> where I imported the cleaned data set and formatted it in the way that their network analysis tool works. You pick a source, a target, and a value for all of the links and then group them. It took me a while to figure out exactly what was a source, what was a link, how many links to create, etc. There was a lot of messing around with the data and its formatting until I was finally able to find the correct groupings. The only characters that appear on multiple covers are Kitty Pryde and Storm, so they were the most common sources. I also made the decision to group the points by artist instead of issue because I thought that it was interesting to see the differences between the four artists rather than the issues themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, I\u2019m not sure that I would use this tool again, and if I did I would go about it in a different way. The amount of data cleaning and filtering was not totally worth the result of something that I could\u2019ve drawn by hand. However, I see how this tool could be useful for working with a large data set and finding a network within it. It\u2019s just important to set the data up in a very particular way or have a good method for filtering through it to get the result that you want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the midterm assignment, I decided to create a network analysis of the different characters featured on the covers of five Uncanny X-Men books. While the final product is fairly simple, there is a large amount of data cleaning, trial and error, and other tribulations to create. I started by downloading the CSV from the google drive…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midterm.leduce.sites.carleton.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midterm.leduce.sites.carleton.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midterm.leduce.sites.carleton.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midterm.leduce.sites.carleton.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midterm.leduce.sites.carleton.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midterm.leduce.sites.carleton.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9,"href":"https:\/\/midterm.leduce.sites.carleton.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midterm.leduce.sites.carleton.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}