This week I chose to look at the metadata for the Tate Collection. Read about the Tate Collection here.

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library(data.table)
library(knitr)
library(stringi)
library(tidyverse)
library(wordcloud2)

options(scipen = 999)

medium


last_name


placeOfBirth


decade_created











Final Product

After exporting each png through RStudio Viewer > Export, I combined the images together.

The Tate Collection











I was also interested in the number of works by women in the Tate Collection. It looks like the collection of female artists started to grow around the early 1900s and most of the work is from that point forward.

gender n pct
Female 1127 2.3
Male 47776 97.7