Tag: Women and gender

• When did your country lose 11 days? Four great switches, mapped

  

  Britain lost eleven days in 1752, Russia thirteen in 1918, and Saudi Arabia switched its civil calendar only in 2016. I mapped when every country the sources date changed calendar, side of the road, units and votes for women.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Animated timeline, Clocks and calendars, Early modern, Europe, Government, history, maps, Place search, Twentieth century, Wikipedia, Women and gender, World, world maps

• Where the world’s music comes from

  

  I mapped the birthplaces of 283,424 musicians and the home towns of 29,489 bands in Wikidata: New York, London, Paris and Vienna lead, every genre has a home town from Kingston to Seoul, Finland has the most metal bands per head, and women went from 8% of musicians born before 1800 to 42% of those…

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Birthplaces, history, Music, Present day, Wikidata, Women and gender, World, world maps

• Where every film director is from

  

  I mapped the birthplaces of 43,619 film directors in Wikidata: New York and Paris lead, Prague and Copenhagen lead per head, Asia’s share has grown since the 1950s, one in seven made their films abroad, and women went from 3% of new directors in the 1920s to 32% in the 2020s.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  art, Birthplaces, Europe, Film and television, population, Twentieth century, Wikidata, Women and gender, World

• Crime in London, 1674 to 1913: the Old Bailey mapped

  

  197,581 trials at the Old Bailey, rebuilt from the tagged record: the gallows give way to transportation and then the prison, women fall from 36% of defendants to 10%, and a map of where the crimes were, 1674 to 1834.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  cities, Crime and punishment, Early modern, Georgian, history, London, maps, population, Victorian, Women and gender

• Who named Antarctica? Twenty thousand place names, the nations that gave them and the people they honour

  

  I mapped 20,151 Antarctic place names by who named them, when and after whom. America and Britain named 46% of the continent, and only 3.4% of the people honoured are women.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  coast and sea, Commemoration, Naming, place names, Twentieth century, Wikidata, Women and gender, World, world maps