Grounded in a More Credible World

Easily Ditko’s most well-known creation, Spider-Man is critical to any discussion about Ditko’s work. This chapter focuses on Ditko’s role as writer on the series and the trajectory that he set the character on: a psychological epic not seen in other superhero comics of the period. Ditko puts Spider-Man through his paces, demanding that, like Dr. Strange, he searches his interior in a quest to find and create himself, transitioning from lonely nebbish to confident individualist. Ditko’s interest in Objectivist epistemology takes an increasingly important role with Spider-Man, setting the stage for the superheroes that would follow his departure from Marvel Comics. Among those more grounded and transparently philosophical characters was the Blue Beetle. Ditko created his version of Blue Beetle, and as this chapter argues, uses him to pick up where he left of with Peter Parker, completing the psychological quest that began in Amazing Fantasy #15.

A Study on Comparative Analysis of COVID-19 Datasets

In December 2019 a virus named COVID-19 appeared in China, precisely in the city of Wuhan. This virus was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020. Since no adequate medical treatment has yet been discovered for this virus, many world institutions are committed to share with each other the data they collect and process in their laboratories. A large amount of these data is shared with citizens in order to inform about the risk that threaten us by virus COVID-19. Various credible world institutions such as the World Health Organization (WHO), Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), etc., are providing various statistical data to address the issues raised by this emergent situation, but these reports in some cases are putting doubts on the completeness and the transparency of the data, which are not sufficiently processed and which then create confusion about the risks that we are facing. In this paper we are conducting a study of the quality of current global datasets from the must credible sources related to COVID-19. Also, we are comparing datasets collected from Republic of Kosovo and Republic of North Macedonia with corresponding data from WHO, ECDC and JHU datasets. To analyze datasets from different sources, we are using Power BI tool, making the improvement through the implementation of adequate dimensions and methods of improving the quality of datasets.