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New visualizations with % of gender #18

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BenjaminHCCarr opened this issue Dec 20, 2017 · 1 comment
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New visualizations with % of gender #18

BenjaminHCCarr opened this issue Dec 20, 2017 · 1 comment

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@BenjaminHCCarr
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I think an interesting visualization would be percent by gender rather than raw gender numbers...

See: https://twtr-analyser.herokuapp.com/tweet_display/interactions/05804139/ retweets & gender

I think it's fairly consistently 1/3 female and 2/3 male, but that is hidden by the volume changes.

@gedankenstuecke
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I don't have a strong opinion on this one, but I personally like the absolute values. Let me explain why: The % by gender does not take into account the baseline reply-levels, thus for low-tweet days the gender ratio can easily flip to 100% or 0%. This makes the whole thing rather noisy and seemingly absolute.

By also plotting the (averaged) absolute numbers it's much easier to see whether an overrepresentation actually translates into a big difference (e.g. my own data in 2009/2010) or not (your data in 2014).

Does that make sense?

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