Is there a difference in tagged topics for women versus men? This visualization shows topics by gender using the Smithsonian API. Results were gathered from four Smithsonian Institute units: the National Museum of American History, the American Art Museum, the Portrait Gallery, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Posts were gathered by pulling data on 20 names - ten female and ten males: Mary, Elizabeth, Anna, Helen, Margaret, Sarah, Emma, Susan, Clara, Florence and James, John, William, George, Joesph, Charles, Robert, Henry, Edward, Thomas. These names were chosen because they were the most popuar names as reported on the Social Security Administration website for last 200 years (NOTE: ssa.gov data is back to 1880, other sources supplemented prior to this decade back to late 1700's). Certain names were filtered out due to their lack of data in the Smithsonian collection. Even though the top ten names for each gender were used, the stacks returned far more entries for men than women. When posts were modified and cleaned, the total results showed more than 10x more posts for males than females.