disparity-analysis - Sex Analysis of Article Authors on CERN Courier

This Python project scrapes article data from the CERN Courier website, analyses the sex of the authors by their name, and generates a bar plot with the sex distribution.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
• Licence

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/cerncourier/disparity-analysis.git
cd disparity-analysis

2. Install the required packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Run the script:

python3 thread_main.py

This will:

• Scrape article links from the CERN Courier website.
• Fetch the title, date, and author of each article.
• Determine the sex of the authors using the gender-guesser library.
• Generate a CSV file with the processed data.
• Create and save a bar chart showing the sex distribution.

Licence

Distributed under the MIT Licence.