sonification-srccon

Materials and Resources for the "Data Audioization/Sonification" session at SRCCON 2015.

Dataset 1

TThis dataset, from Popup Archive's Audiosear.ch podcast transcription tool, contains the weekly number of mentions of real and fictional people (i.e. Don Draper, Terry Gross) in the top performing podcasts for February 2015 through June 2015.

The datafile is called popupArchiveData.csv.

The file has the following structure:

Variable	Definition
name	The person's first and last name
mentions	The number of mentions in a given week
week	The week, in format YYYY-MM-DD (i.e. 2015-03-29)

The data was compiled by Shindo Strzelczyk of Popup Archive.

Dataset 2

This data is from FiveThirtyEight, and was originally published in their GitHub repo and used for Walt Hickey's article, "Comic Books Are Still Made By Men, For Men And About Men."

The original data set was published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Here are the data notes from FiveThirtyEight:

The raw data behind the story Comic Books Are Still Made By Men, For Men And About Men.

The data comes from Marvel Wikia and DC Wikia. 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:

Variable	Definition
page_id	The unique identifier for that characters page within the wikia
name	The name of the character
urlslug	The unique url within the wikia that takes you to the character
ID	The identity status of the character (Secret Identity, Public identity, [on marvel only: No Dual Identity])
ALIGN	If the character is Good, Bad or Neutral
EYE	Eye color of the character
HAIR	Hair color of the character
SEX	Sex of the character (e.g. Male, Female, etc.)
GSM	If the character is a gender or sexual minority (e.g. Homosexual characters, bisexual characters)
ALIVE	If the character is alive or deceased
APPEARANCES	The number of appareances of the character in comic books (as of Sep. 2, 2014. Number will become increasingly out of date as time goes on.)
FIRST APPEARANCE	The month and year of the character's first appearance in a comic book, if available
YEAR	The year of the character's first appearance in a comic book, if available