Explanation:
This is a doughnut chart that counts the number of links to the pages of musicians from a sample of 56773 articles on jazz-related topics.
Insights & Future Directions:
- There is a disappointing absence of references to vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday, Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughn, Frank Sinatra, and so on… I also would have been glad to see Sun Ra, Charlie Parker, and Erroll Garner rank highly enough to include in the chart without having incomprehensibly small pie slices.
- There could be some sample bias in the web-crawling algorithm or initial article I used to seed the scraping process. Associating each artist with an instrument or sub-genre and re-creating side-by-side versions chart filtered on those categories could surface that data, but it might be better to test whether the scraping process was biased by seeding with a vocalist’s article and measuring the increase in references to these artists. If the increase is small, we can probably rule out bias of the algorithm seed.