This graph fascinates me – women are in red, men are in blue.
More than a million people have now used our Wolfram|Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook. And as part of our latest update, in addition to collecting some anonymized statistics, we launched a Data Donor program that allows people to contribute detailed data to us for research purposes.
A few weeks ago we decided to start analyzing all this data. And I have to say that if nothing else it’s been a terrific example of the power of Mathematica and the Wolfram Language for doing data science. (It’ll also be good fodder for the Data Science course I’m starting to create.)
There’s a whole lot of data showing that gender is one of the strongest sources of real, actual measurable differences between human beings. Versus race, religion, culture, language etc… these things are noise compared to vast gender differences. But it’s interesting to see some strong overlaps here as well.
Men and Women very similar
- career
- social media
- food + drink
- quotes + life philosophy
- fitness
- fashion
Strongly Men
- sports
- politics
- technology
- movies
- music
- video games
Strongly Women
- family and friends
- pets + animals
- personal mood
- special occasions
- relationships
- health
Mildly different
- transport (slightly men)
- television (slightly men)
- travel (slightly men, as age increases)
- weather (slightly women)