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A Bossy Sort of Voice: Uncovering gender bias in Harry Potter with Python

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Harry Potter is an incredibly popular franchise that shaped a generation, but it's also been critiqued for its biased portrayal of female characters. Does that claim hold up to a quantitative analysis? In this talk we'll use Python and Natural Language Processing techniques to find out.

Presentation page -- https://2018.pycon.ca/talks/talk-PC-55247 Code & blog post -- http://bit.ly/bossysortofvoice Author website -- http://eleanorstrib.com/

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