- Part1: quantitative visualization ideas

I want to explore more about the gender feature. to show the huge gap between male and female artists based on the collections that MET chose to collect. and I will also narrow down the scope by choosing art collections from 20th century specifically.

My theme is : Throughout the 20th century, the huge gap between artists gender, based on the number of collections that MET acquired each year, is increased or decreased.

For the qualitative part, I will also combine with the gender of the donors to see if there are any female collectors or male collectors who are interested in art collections. And what are their preferances?

- Part2: What data set is interesting to explore quantitatively?

Basically four parts:

1. about the art work: its medium and number of artworks been acquired throughout 20th century

Number of art works been acquired each year from the 20th century: Preliminary Process need to be done through R

Create a new variable (the difference of number of artworks from male and female artists for each year)

2. about the artists' gender

Artists Gender: Need to do some extra research/ got information from Claire

3. about the donors' gender

Donor's gender: if the workload is too huge, need to limit the scope into top 10 female collectors

the artwork collected by female collectors: if the workload is too huge, need to limit the scope into top 10 female collectors

the artwork of female artists collected by male collectors: if the workload is too huge, need to limit the scope into top 10 collectors

4. about the artworks' medium

Some preparation for the qualitative research: Combine the donors' gender/ artists' gender with the medium feature to see if there is any preferances.

- Part3: What story is interesting to tell?

Throughout the 20th century, when MET started to grow rapidly, There is definetely a huge gap of art works that created by male and female artists. What is the trend, is the gap enlarged or closed a little bit?

What are the taste of female collectors (if any)

What are the taste of collectors in terms of medium that collect artworks from female artists

Preliminary visualizations

the first one is using the gender and the number of artworks been acquited each year in the 20th century. Each 10 artpieces is presented by seprated square

https://github.com/tongtongluu/intro_PGDV5200/blob/master/acquisitionNumber_Gender.jpg

the second one combined with the medium feature to see the number of top 10 medium artworks been created by male and female artists.

can modified this to present the number of collections by female donors, or by top 10 donors. Haven't modify the design yet because I just think the variable of donor can be a good idea that limit my scope and diffierentiate my idea.

https://github.com/tongtongluu/intro_PGDV5200/blob/master/medium_gender.jpg

Want some suggestions

what do you think is the most representative features can represnet the huge gap between male and female artists

What if I cannot find valueble information about the donor's gender