"At Marvel we're constantly trying to understand our characters and stories better so that we can better present those to you, our fans. (Also, we are big data nerds.) As part of this effort we focused some sophisticated data analysis tools on the world's most interesting social network — the Marvel Universe. The result is what you see above: in each image, every node represents a character and each line represents a shared appearance between two characters (in some of the graphs, the thickness of the line corresponds to the number of shared appearances)."
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