Data export reveals Characters without data

[ragsol]

This post is for the taggers and not for the data export itself:

I had Excel show me null values, and there are quite a few Characters still without one or more traits. Here's the list and an example of how it looks: Fix or just acknowledge that we lack the info?

• [x] "Alan Walker"
• [x] "Lauren McCarthy"
• [x] "Mari Nagem"
• [x] Abigail Fort (Thoughts and Prayers)
• [x] Agent Everett Ross
• [x] Agents (sentient programs) renamed Agent Smith and made an individual not group - I think it works better that way.
• [x] Alex
• [x] Amazon Mechanical Turk worker (Lacework)
• [x] Amos Burton Deleted, was not in any situation
• [x] Andrea Farbe
• [x] Annotator (Suspicious Behavior)
• [x] Arthur (Best Friend)
• [x] Audience (Man With a Movie Camera)
• [x] audience (the last one) Deleted - not used in any situation
• [x] Balem Abrasax
• [x] Carlos Olivera Deleted - not used in any situation
• [x] Claire Deleted - not used in any situation
• [x] Concert audience (Song for a New Day)
• [x] crew (Six Wakes) Deleted crew and put the entity Humans in general in the situation instead with the same verbs
• [x] Dr. Brown Deleted - not used in any situation
• [x] Dweller of Alina's kentuki
• [x] Ellie Deleted - was an unused duplicate
• [x] Fredrik
• [x] Gamemasters (The Hunger Games)
• [x] Ghost in Breathe
• [x] Grigor
• [x] Haru (The Cat Returns)
• [x] Helena
• [x] Hundred Eyes
• [x] Jarvis
• [x] Julian Makowski (Bouvetøya 2052)
• [x] Lindy
• [x] Luce Cannon
• [x] Narrator (Exhalation)
• [x] Nikolina
• [x] Nocko
• [x] Nozomi
• [x] Palle Olsson
• [x] Peter B. Parker Deleted - not in any situation
• [x] Professor (Drones Don't Kill People)
• [x] Professor's Wife (Drones Don't Kill People)
• [x] Protagonist (Who*You)
• [x] Prowler
• [x] Psychologist (Cosmodrama)
• [x] Scavengers
• [x] SEER Robot
• [x] Sentinel (The Matrix) Deleted - not used in any situation
• [x] Sophia (Fall)
• [x] T'Chaka
• [x] Three high-school aged girls (The Fall) group
• [x] Virtual friends (Best friend) group
• [x] Walkers (Alan Walker fans) group
• [x] WeUs pillform technology *deleted as
• [x] Wintermute
• [x] Workers (Outra 33 Bienal de São Paulo)

[LindaKairus]

I thought I went all artwork characters through, but apparently I missed some. This would have been more effective check and clean before we closed the database. However, if Jill has the possibilities/time to change it here is the info for artwork characters. However, if there is a decision not to leave it it is fine. Basically, they are missing because I forgot to choos Unknown/not applicable on all of them.

"Lauren McCarthy" Sexuality: Unknown/not applicable

"Mari Nagem" Sexuality: Unknown/not applicable

Amazon Mechanical Turk worker (Lacework) Gender Unknown/Not applicable Race/ethnicity Unknown/not applicable Sexuality: Unknown/not applicable

Annotator (Suspicious Behavior) Sexuality: Unknown/not applicable

SEER Robot Sexuality: Unknown/not applicable

Workers (Outra 33 Bienal de São Paulo) Sexuality: Unknown/not applicable

[jilltxt]

Thanks for pointing this out, @ragsol. I'm correcting some, and crossing off the list above as I do so. Many of these are "group" characters. We need to either NOT export them, or mark them clearly.

Is anyone using group characters in analyses?

[jilltxt]

I fixed all listed characters with null values. There aren't many group characters, and I decided to just put Unknown for the fields where there are multiple genders or whatever in the group. I also added a brief explanation of this to the Data in Brief paper.