Saturday, June 17, 2017

Gendered Language and Reviews of College Professors

http://benschmidt.org/profGender/#

Gendered Language in Teacher Reviews

This interactive chart lets you explore the words used to describe male and female teachers in about 14 million reviews from RateMyProfessor.com.
You can enter any other word (or two-word phrase) into the box below to see how it is split across gender and discipline: the x-axis gives how many times your term is used per million words of text (normalized against gender and field). You can also limit to just negative or positive reviews (based on the numeric ratings on the site). For some more background, see here.
Not all words have gender splits, but a surprising number do. Even things like pronouns are used quite differently by gender.

Friday, June 16, 2017

CDC Data and Social Determintants of Health

https://www.cdc.gov/socialdeterminants/data/index.htm

Data can be a catalyst for improving community health and well-being. Understanding data on social determinants of health, such as income, educational level, and employment, can help focus efforts to improve community health. The following tools are supported by CDC resources; some tools include references to data sources outside of CDC.

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