Research Question: What is the difference connections/targets and genre between authors Du Bois, W.E.B. and Underwood & Underwood?
When creating a visualization with the data collected from The Crisis. The data overall was showing the connections between authors and their most common genre that tied them together when published over a span of ten years. However, my question is not looking at the overall collected authors from the year 1910 to 1920. But looking at two authors Du Bois, W.E.B. and Underwood & Underwood and the difference between them in the years 1910 to 1920.
Figure 1: Overall visual representation of the connections between authors of The Modern Crisis articles
Upon analyzing figure 1 above, the key tells us which colors coordinate to the types of genres there are. Being that the genres are letters, images, articles, fiction, poetry, drama, and music. While also looking at the visitation one can see that the bigger the circle the more the author used that genre in the span of the years of being published in The Crisis. For instance, a smaller circle would represent someone being published in the years 1915-1916 or just the one year 1910. Does not matter but were published in only a few amount of years. Versus larger circles that represent being published for far more many years such as 1910-1917 or even 1910-1920. There is so much data collected but I really wanted to look at the difference between two authors that were apart of The Crisis for a span of many years but took part mostly in being published in different genres. Thus why Authors chosen were Du Bois, W.E.B. and Underwood & Underwood.
When analyzing the connections of author Du Bois, W.E.B in figure 2. I noticed straight away that their most popular genre that they published the most within was articles. I also noticed that they had a very large circle that represented their name since they took part in The Crisis for a span of twelve years overall. Next was looking at their connections between the various authors. Since Du Bois was published quite a bit through the span of many years. They were connected with a various amount of authors with a various amount of genres. Used quite a bit through the years, it would appear Du Bois was a very important and essential part in creating content for The Crisis over the twelve years. Hence, Du Bois was connected to what would appear over fifty plus different authors that were published as well in the same issues that Du Bois was apart of. Since he was published quite a bit through the many years of service within The Crisis articles.
The second author I wanted to analyze was Underwood & Underwood in figure 3. This was because I wanted to look at how someone with such a big circle did not have as nearly as many connections to other authors that Du Bois, W.E.B. had. Looking at one point right away is that you could tell that the most popular genre this author used was images. With such a large circle as well and looking at the data, Underwood & Underwood was apart of The Crisis for nine years. You could also see that there was a connection between both Du Bois, W.E.B. and Underwood & Underwood that may have been hard to catch when looking at Du Bois’s visualization in figure 2. However, looking at figure 3, the visualization is one hundred times easier to analyze and see what actual authors are connected to Underwood & Underwood. However, my main question is why so little connections than Du Bois even though Underwood had been published for The Crisis for so many years? When I thought about it, it made sense. Underwood & Underwood uses images to add to the issue which is used a far less amount of times in various issues. Rather than Du Bois that uses articles that are published within the various issues probably 90% more of the time. Hence, articles are used more than images which leads Du Bois to be connected to more authors through out the years 1910 to 1920 in The Crisis than Underwood.
My overall research question therefore has been answered. I wanted to analyze the different connections and genres that authors had between Du Bois, W.E.B. and Underwood & Underwood. I was able to see what was the most popular genre used for the two authors and why they had so many or so little conections between various authors. I look forward to further analysis and connections between other authors in The Crisis journals.