{"id":1,"date":"2023-02-19T01:43:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T01:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/x-men.hassellw.sites.carleton.edu\/Locations_in_X-Men\/?p=1"},"modified":"2023-02-19T20:25:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T20:25:07","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-men.hassellw.sites.carleton.edu\/Locations_in_X-Men\/uncategorized\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"How locations are used in Uncanny X-Men 200-249"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For this project I chose to analyze Uncanny X-men comics issues 200-249, written by famed writer Chris Claremont, credited for introducing several widely famous characters to the comics, such as Rogue and Phoenix. But for my project I chose not to analyze the characters of the comics, but instead to find something important in the locations used in this run. For this I did a lot of cleaning of the various locations using OpenRefine, making sure typos in the dataset did not mess with the organization. Afterwards I simply grouped the data into categories on Google Sheets, which ended up in the data you see below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Disclaimer: The end result of this project is not quite what I intended coming into it. I first came into this project looking to analyze the usage of &#8220;exotic&#8221; locations to discuss how often comics from this era use places like Africa and Asia almost the same way they use Space: as places where our intrepid heroes are completely out of their element, and must survive on nothing but wits and good luck. Instead, after doing a brief analysis I found something else: that these locations are simply nowhere to be found at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-flourish wp-block-embed-flourish\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Interactive or visual content\" src=\"https:\/\/flo.uri.sh\/visualisation\/12798576\/embed#?secret=QIsO6jubGx\" data-secret=\"QIsO6jubGx\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"575\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The number of times scenes were set in certain countries\/continents<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking at this graph one can see that, unsurprisingly, the USA leads by a wide margin. I expected this, and truthfully I expected the margin to be about this wide. Genosha, a fictional island country off the eastern coast of Africa, is a distant second, with Australia being a close third. This is a good indicator of where the action in this run of comics took place, and is again unsurprising. What is surprising is how far one has to go down the list to find Africa, given that a good portion of the total scenes in these comics were set right off the coast of the continent. For those who don&#8217;t know, Genosha was Marvel&#8217;s equivalent of an autocratic apartheid country, where mutants were abused by the government, and often kidnapped from other countries to work in Genosha. Why did Marvel not take this time to flesh out Africa and the mutants who live there? I don&#8217;t know.    In reality, it shows that even during a run which was praised for its developments of strong female characters, characters from other countries still weren&#8217;t seen as important to its largely American audience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-heading\">What could have been done better?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Plainly speaking I would have loved to include a map for this project, and have it be sorted so that one could see, over the issues, how the distribution of locations fell with the data point remaining over time, which would have allowed it to be not only a more interesting showcase of the data, but also would have allowed me to be more specific. Sadly I simply do not know how to do that well enough in the few days I had to complete this project, so I was left with a bar chart, which, while it works, could have been much improved upon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this project I chose to analyze Uncanny X-men comics issues 200-249, written by famed writer Chris Claremont, credited for introducing several widely famous characters to the comics, such as Rogue and Phoenix. 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