Cartooning from the Margins: Digital Exhibits on Newspaper Cartoonists
Created by University of Richmond’s RHCS “Digital Humanities” students, Fall ’23.
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Wikidata Visualization – Kylee Lewandowski
Major Assignment 1 https://w.wiki/7kHW The visualization I chose was a color-coded bar chart depicting female cartoon artist, comics artists, and comics writers. It also shows their country of citizenship. On the graph’s x axis, it has a list of countries and up the y axis is people’s names that fall into these categories mentioned earlier.…
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Critical Creation #1
https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Goats%0ASELECT%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FitemDescription%20%3Fcountry_of_citizenship%20%3Fcountry_of_citizenshipLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581097.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP106%20wd%3AQ715301%3B%0A%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP172%20wd%3AQ49085.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP27%20%3Fcountry_of_citizenship.%20%7D%0A%7D The subject of my data table related to comics is male comic artists that are African Americans with citizenship in the United States. This topic is very significant because it is telling us all of the African American comic artists that are currently represented on Wikidata. This also has a lot of significance towards…
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Asia Garcia, Will Kent Blog Post
Will Kent presented the reason for Wikidata and how it collects information. He also showed how the information from Wikidata influences other websites, such as Google and its knowledge panels. He mentions that Wikidata is a community-driven platform where people are able to input more information. The one clear takeaway I learned from Will Kent…
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Jason Shockley Data Visualization (Project 1)
https://w.wiki/7kEJ A graph showing the “male creators of DC superheroes” was the visualization I chose. The subject matter displayed in this image is the list of every male developer of a DC superhero. This matters because a diverse range of male and female producers is essential. This image makes it quite evident that there are…
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Wikidata Visualization: Manga Time! – Tyrone Lee
Wikidata Visualization: Manga Time! Wikidata is a massive hub of knowledge. Its structured nature, based on the principles of the web, makes it a powerful resource for researchers, developers, and enthusiasts across the very diverse world. By querying Wikidata, you can tap into a wealth of information, extract insights, and discover connections that were previously…
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Nicole Burney Project 1
https://w.wiki/7pq6 The topic for the table is comic artists in Washington, D.C.. I added filters to narrow the list. The filters included human, male, comic artist, Washington D.C., and country of citizenship. From there, I altered the code by adding ?occupationDescription to get another column in the table. The table contains eleven people and…
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Emma Rubin visualization
Link to visualization https://w.wiki/7pqA I chose to highlight the gender gap between men and women in comics. Specifically, my visualization shows women inducted into Will Eisner’s Hall of Fame. Because I was limited to focusing on the few names listed and my visualization does not contain any pictures, I created a simple list, or you…
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Visualization Project
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…
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WIKIDATA VISUALIZATION REPORT SAMPLE #2: Cartoonists and their Influences
Wikidata Query: https://w.wiki/7pLi Modified from: https://w.wiki/7pLk This is a quick Wikidata query I made by modifying an existing network from the SDCC list on comics writers, artists, and cartoonists. I wanted to focus on cartoonists because the original network, while vast and full, was a little too visually busy to understand. I also was more…
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Wikidata Query Report SAMPLE #1: US Cartoonists and their birth years/dates
Wikidata Query: https://w.wiki/7pL2 This is a query that pulls all of the humans with occupation of “Cartoonist” with “United States of America” listed as their country of citizenship. I created this query all on my own by just using the Wikidata Query Helper and then adding in a few optional components about birth date/death date.…