| Name | Gender Gap Tracker big data monitoring tool |
| Acronym | not present |
| Material link | https://gendergaptracker.informedopinions.org/ |
| Start date | 2018 |
| End date | ongoing |
| Short description | Researchers at Simon Fraser University collaborated with the Canadian non profit advocacy group, Informed Opinions (previously MediaWatch) to create an online tool that scrapes data from influential Canadian news sites to measure, in real time, the ratio of male to female sources quoted and interviewed. The Gender Gap Tracker visualizes the data in both aggregate and comparative graphs that are updated daily. Informed Opinions promotes public awareness of the Gender Gap Tracker and encourages news consumers to let the monitored newsrooms and journalists know that they care and expect more representative practice. Since it's launch in February 2019, the Gender Gap Tracker appears to have helped motivate a 4% increase in women's voices. |
| Main Organization | Informed OpinionsSimon Fraser University's Big Data Hub |
| Freelance | // |
| Country | CanadaCanada |
| Types | awareness raising independent external monitoring monitoring leading to organizational change |
| Related issues | information, knowledge, research media representation participation and access to media |
| Media sector | television print media (for example, newspaper/s, magazine/s) digital media (for example, online news site/s) |