Believe it or not, there's actually a publicly available dataset, where someone figured out all the appearances that Marvel superheroes had with each other in different comic books. We can use that to figure out relationships between superheroes in the Marvel Universe and other aspects of them that we might find interesting. Let's start off with a simple example, where we just try to find the most popular superhero in the Marvel dataset. Is Spider-Man or The Hulk the most commonly appearing superhero in Marvel Comics? Well, the answer might surprise you. Let's go dig in and find out.
Finding the most popular superhero in a social graph
Superhero social networks
We have a superhero social network that someone...