{"id":439,"date":"2023-10-10T15:08:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T19:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rhcscomicstrips\/?p=439"},"modified":"2023-12-09T18:58:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T22:58:15","slug":"wikidata-visualization-jamilah-ganyuma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rhcscomicstrips\/2023\/10\/10\/wikidata-visualization-jamilah-ganyuma\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikidata visualization – Jamilah Ganyuma"},"content":{"rendered":"

Visualization link: https:\/\/w.wiki\/7j9W<\/code><\/a><\/p>\n

This is a table depicting illustrators who have won the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics, according to Wikidata. A table is typically one of the most common visualizations and one of the simplest. There is not much data in the table, as only four items popped up, and nothing is being compared, so a table is the best way to represent the data. There is much missing, however. The award began in 2015 and there hasn\u2019t been a new awardee since 2020, so there are not many winners. Yet, they still only show four of the winners, and within those winners only one author when a majority of the books had multiple authors. For Nilah Magruder, who won the award for her book M.F.K.,<\/em> the book does not even pop up, only her name. There are so many gaps in wikidata concerning this award.<\/p>\n

I set out on this visualization trying to get a head start on the upcoming project due but was stuck because not much was popping up for Steenz. Their Wikidata profile has little information on it and that made finding queries that even included their name hard. Steenz has won this award for their book Archival Quality.<\/em> This was one of the only searches where their name actually popped up. Even when I tried to go broader, like simply looking for African-American illustrators, their name did not show up in the list. I think this experience showed me the reality of data collection and how important it is to have data on file for people. This award I looked up specifically is for diversity, meaning most of the people who are nominated and won it are people of color. However, there is not much on their wikidata profile, which could hide them from website searches, burying their works and contributions.<\/p>\n

For my critical creation, I think I will write about the syndicated comic strip Steenz draws for, Heart of the City. There is not much on Steenz on wikidata, but because Heart of the City has been running for a while I think it should be easier. I think maybe I will create one of the word bubbles or a graph to depict whatever information instead of a table if there are many results so it can be easier to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Visualization link: https:\/\/w.wiki\/7j9W This is a table depicting illustrators who have won the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics, according to Wikidata. A table is typically one of the most common visualizations and one of the simplest. There is not much data in the table, as only four items popped up, and nothing is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[],"coauthors":[16],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-wikidatavizdraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rhcscomicstrips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rhcscomicstrips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rhcscomicstrips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rhcscomicstrips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rhcscomicstrips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rhcscomicstrips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1050,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rhcscomicstrips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rhcscomicstrips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rhcscomicstrips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rhcscomicstrips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rhcscomicstrips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}