Hi all,

I'd like to share a little Wikidata application: I just used Wikidata to guess the sex of people based on their (first) name [1]. My goal was to determine gender bias among the authors in several research areas. This is how some people spend their free time on weekends ;-)

In the process, I also created a long list of first names with associated sex information from Wikidata [2]. It is not super clean but it served its purpose. If you are a researcher, then maybe the gender bias of journals/conferences is interesting to you as well. Details and some discussion of the results are online [1].

Cheers,

Markus

[1] http://korrekt.org/page/Note:Sex_Distributions_in_Research
[2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AstQ5xfO-xXGdE9UVkxNc0JMVWJzNmJqNmhPRjc0cnc&usp=sharing

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