Link to Query search: https://w.wiki/7mHR
This Visualization is all about where fictional characters are citizens. Whether the character lives in a real country or not, the visualization represents them all. The characters are from different entertainment areas, including comics, books, movies, and others. Most comics creators will either make the fictional character a citizen of the country where they are created or make up an imaginary place. Therefore, the citizenship of fictional characters strongly correlates with the place where they were created. For example, most Marvel characters are American citizens, like Spiderman and Hulk, as an American company made them.
The visual I chose is a bubble graph, as it represents the quantity of each citizenship very well and allows for a straightforward comparison to other nationalities. Bubbles graphs are typically used to display quantitative information, which helps a person to quickly compare the different categories as the bubbles vary in size, arrangement, and color. This visualization is only separated by bubble size, representing the number of citizens per country.
I chose this type of visualization because comparing the number of citizens per country is an essential to this data, which the bubble graph does very well. The problem with Wikidata is that if your search is too specific, only a few data will match your search, and a graph with four data points is pointless. I wanted to filter out some of the less popular characters, too, but Wikidata doesn’t have information on the popularity of each character. (views, appearances in comics/movies…)
An exciting aspect of the visualization is that some countries are represented multiple times but under slight naming discrepancies, which might make it seem like many more countries are on the list. It is disappointing because there is no way to change this that I could think of. Germany and the UK are mentioned at least twice. The Russian Empire, Russia, and the soviet union are all separate categories, which misleads the reader at first sight of the visualization. Something I want to see in the visualization is who the characters are in each category, yet that might get overwhelming for a simple visualization and would only be suitable for one meant to be examined closely.
I would like to add arrangements to the bubbles, like a separation between real and fictional places, adding tremendous value to the visualization. I would also like to color code the bubbles and make the visualization more complex and insightful for the reader. I learned that Wikidata is highly specific and requires a lot of attention to detail, as different search categories will highly impact your search’s number of results. For this visualization, I was playing around with the ‘instance of’ filter and realized that searching for “fictional human” and “fictional character” is very different, according to Wikidata.