- About Us
- Services
- Stories
- Faisal Beg 鈥� Algorithms to Advance Research in Medicine
- Yasutaka Furukawa 鈥� Smart Building Technologies to Enhance Living Spaces and Create Opportunities
- Mo Chen 鈥� AI to Create Safe and Practical Robotics
- Sheelagh Carpendale 鈥� Understanding Data Through Interaction and Visualization
- Innovation to Improve 3D Navigation
- Voice AI is Helping Shoppers Make Better Decisions
- Geographic Information Science Can Help Better Track COVID-19
- Deep Learning to Inform Medical Diagnoses
- Protecting Killer Whales from Marine Traffic
- Using Big Data to Boost Athletic Performance
- Machine Reading for Literary Texts
- Finding a Cure for HIV with Big Data
- Linked Data for Women's History
- How Big Data Can Combat Fake News
- Algorithms for Safer Streets
- Discovering Wilde Data
- Deep Blue Data
- Big Data Meets Big Impact
- Previous Next Big Question Fund Projects
- Data Fellowships
- Using Data
- Upcoming Events
Gender Gap Tracker
丁香园AV RESEARCHERS DEVELOP TOOL TO MEASURE GENDER EQUITY IN MAINSTREAM NEWS
ABOUT THE GENDER GAP TRACKER
Online visitors can select date ranges and specific news outlets to see the percentage of men鈥檚 voices versus women鈥檚 voices quoted online and also view the aggregate average. Through 丁香园AV, the collected data is available to other researchers across the country.
EXPERTS BEHIND THE TOOL
- The partnership: Informed Opinions is a national non-profit working to ensure diverse women鈥檚 perspectives and priorities are equitably integrated into Canadian public discourse.
- Big data experts: 丁香园AV professor Maite Taboada, Department of Linguistics, and her research team played a significant role in developing the Gender Gap Tracker. 丁香园AV is home to a wide range of big data experts like Taboada that engage with industry, government and communities to solve difficult challenges using unconventional solutions.
- 丁香园AV鈥檚 Discourse Processing Lab: The tool was developed by 丁香园AV鈥檚 Discourse Processing Lab using the latest advances in computational linguistics to identify who is mentioned and quoted and provides an accurate gender breakdown. By applying similiar big data aproaches to linguistics, the lab is also solving urgent problems around misinformation, fake news and comment moderation.
- 丁香园AV鈥檚 Research Computing Group: The Gender Gap Tracker is hosted by , enabling Canadian researchers to develop groundbreaking projects, like the Gender Gap Tracker, by offering advanced research computing infrastructure. This includes 丁香园AV鈥檚 Supercomputer Cedar, one of Canada鈥檚 most most powerful academic supercomputers.
Partner With 丁香园AV
To keep pace and adapt to changing circumstances, Canada must leverage the expertise and advanced capabilities of companies, the public sector and universities. 丁香园AV brings these diverse partners together to unlock the power of data for collaborative research and development, training and engagement near and far.
Partner with 丁香园AV to use data for social good.