Comic Characters

This folder contains data behind the story [Comic Books Are Still Made By Men, For Men And About Men](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/women-in-comic-books/).

The data comes from [Marvel Wikia](http://marvel.wikia.com/Main_Page) and [DC Wikia](http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page). Characters were scraped on August 24. Appearance counts were scraped on September 2. The month and year of the first issue each character appeared in was pulled on October 6.

The data is split into two files, for DC and Marvel, respectively: `dc-wikia-data.csv` and `marvel-wikia-data.csv`. Each file has the following variables:

"Women were substantially underrepresented among characters with at least one appearance. Among the characters for which we have gender data,12 females made up only 29.3 percent of the DC character list and 24.7 percent of the Marvel roster.

The same trend bears out when we look at characters with higher appearance counts. When we zero in on the 2,415 DC and 3,342 Marvel characters with gender data who appear at least 10 times — the set of characters that probably gives the most consistent view of what we see on the page — female characters make up only 30.9 percent of the DC universe and 30.6 percent of the Marvel universe.13
When we focus on only the most frequently appearing characters in each universe — the stars of the show — the data changes. Of characters with gender data and 100 or more appearances (294 DC characters and 414 Marvel characters), only 29.0 percent of DC’s are female, and a similar 31.1 percent of the Marvel crowd is." - Excerpt from the article provided above.

This data was obtained from the FiveThirtyEight collection of datasets.

本文件夹包含了故事《漫画书仍由男性制作，面向男性，关于男性》（[Comic Books Are Still Made By Men, For Men And About Men](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/women-in-comic-books/））背后的数据。该数据源自[Marvel Wikia](http://marvel.wikia.com/Main_Page)和[DC Wikia](http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page)。角色信息于8月24日被抓取，出场次数于9月2日被抓取，每位角色首次出现之期刊的月份和年份于10月6日被提取。数据分为两个文件，分别针对DC和Marvel：`dc-wikia-data.csv`和`marvel-wikia-data.csv`。每个文件包含以下变量：

在至少出现一次的角色中，女性角色显著代表性不足。在具有性别数据的角色中，仅有12名女性构成了DC角色列表的29.3%，以及Marvel阵容的24.7%。

当观察出场次数更高的角色时，这一趋势依然存在。当我们聚焦于至少出场10次且具有性别数据的2,415名DC角色和3,342名Marvel角色——这一集合可能提供了对我们所看到的页面内容的最一致视角——女性角色仅占DC宇宙的30.9%和Marvel宇宙的30.6%。

当我们将焦点仅放在每个宇宙中最频繁出现的角色上——节目中的明星——数据发生了变化。在具有性别数据且出场次数达到或超过100次（DC角色294名，Marvel角色414名）的角色中，DC角色中女性占比仅为29.0%，而Marvel角色中女性占比也相似，为31.1%。

此数据来自FiveThirtyEight数据集集合。