Marvel

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Description

A hypergraph representing comic book characters as nodes and the comic books they co-appear in as hyperedges. This dataset combines information from the DC-MARVEL Comic Characters Dataset and the Marvel Universe Social Network Dataset to create a comprehensive representation of character interactions within the Marvel universe. Not all characters have complete information.

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Basic statistics

  • Nodes: 6439
  • Hyperedges: 10222
  • Unique hyperedges: 10222
  • Max size hyperedge: 111

Hypergraph metadata

PropertyDescription
name(STRING) Dataset name (e.g., Marvel).
type(STRING) Hypergraph type (e.g., Hypergraph).
version(STRING) Dataset version (e.g., 1.0.0).
weighted(BOOL) Whether the hypergraph is weighted (e.g., false).

Node metadata

PropertyDescription
character_name(STRING) Comic book character name from the source data (e.g., MACHINE MAN/X-51).
Alignment(STRING) Character moral alignment (e.g., Good).
Alive(STRING) Whether the character is currently alive (e.g., Yes).
Appearances(INT) Number of comic book appearances (e.g., 146).
Eyes(STRING) Eye color of the character (e.g., Red).
FirstAppearance(STRING) Date of first comic book appearance (year, month; e.g., 1977, July).
Hair(STRING) Hair color of the character (e.g., Black).
Identity(STRING) Public or secret identity status of the character (e.g., Known to Authorities).
Planet(STRING) Planet or universe of origin (e.g., Earth-616).
Sex(STRING) Sex or gender category recorded for the character (e.g., Male).
Universe(STRING) Comic book universe (publisher; e.g., Marvel).

Hyperedge metadata

PropertyDescription
comic(STRING) Comic issue or publication code represented by the hyperedge (e.g., MM 12).

Hyperedge size distribution

Hyperdegree distribution

Related datasets

Provenance

Source: GigaSheet: DC-MARVEL Comic Characters Dataset (https://www.gigasheet.com/sample-data/dc-marvel-comic-characters) and Marvel Universe Social Network Dataset (https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/csanhueza/the-marvel-universe-social-network?resource=download&select=edges.csv)

License: CC BY 3.0

Reproducibility: Instructions and scripts

Citation

When this data is used in published research or for visualization purposes, please cite the following:

                    
                    Copied!
                    @misc{MarvelUniverseSocialGraph,
  url     = {https://syntagmatic.github.io/marvel/},
  journal = {Marvel Universe Social Graph}
} X

@misc{Sanhueza_2017,
  title   = {The marvel universe social network},
  url     = {https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/csanhueza/the-marvel-universe-social-network?resource=download&select=edges.csv},
  journal = {Kaggle},
  author  = {Sanhueza, Claudio},
  year    = {2017},
  month   = {Jan}
} 

@misc{Gigasheet,
  url     = {https://www.gigasheet.com/sample-data/dc-marvel-comic-characters},
  journal = {Gigasheet}
}
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