I found it interesting to see African countries that I’d been socialized to think of as being behind in the world leading on gender representation. Other explorations I had for potential datasets included looking at Olympic teams. Like the UN, the Olympics brought together a world of nations, yet I also had to attend to the fact that elite athletes were not exactly representative of the typical population in ability, physical form, or age. In some ways an Olympic dataset would bring the same concerns as a celebrity dataset.
