Are there significantly more appearances of X-Men or Avengers characters in the Marvel Universe? Well, we haven’t quite answered the question, but this data and script play with the topic. Links and notes below:

• marvel0_modified.csv
  • Notes: This csv contains data on the first 100 characters from the Marvel API (thanks Sweta). Because the column names are difficult to parse (in that the special charater “/” is frequently used), I modified the 11th column name from “comics/items/0/name” to “firstcomicname.”
• Marvel.R
  • If you run the entire script in R, you’ll see a comparison between characters classified as X-Men and characters classified as Avengers. I used a rough classification:
    • xmen = characters whose firstcomicname contains “X-Men”
    • avengers = characters whose firstcomicname contains “Avengers”

I hope you can use this script to help form your own analyses for your final datasets!