As part of DH Awards 2014 we collected a variety of statistics. These included optional ones collected on the nominations and voting where users chose to submit them. In addition we collected a variety of statistics through standard use of Google Analytics.
Nomination Statistics
Nominations are removed if they are duplicates of something already nominated (most common), are not in any way loosely ‘DH’, the nominations committee can’t find any sign of update/release/modification that year, or if the resource owner requests to be removed.
| Nominations Submitted | 93 |
| Nominations Accepted | 78 |
Ballot Statistics
Ballots are only removed where it is evident that someone has voted multiple times. The rule of thumb is that if they have voted 2 or 3 times (e.g. using the same email address) then we’ll take the last ballot cast. If they have voted over 3 times, we remove all of their votes. In general people sometimes accidentally submit the form more than once.
| Ballots Submitted | 2162 |
| Ballots Accepted | 2117 |
Links to Google Analytics Data
Google Analytics is running on this website and thus we’re able to make available some other sorts of anonymous data.
- Location of site visitors during nominations and voting: http://tinyurl.com/DHAwards2014-location
- Language set in browsers of site visitors during nomination and voting: http://tinyurl.com/DHAwards2014-language
- Browser used by site visitors during nomination and voting: http://tinyurl.com/DHAwards2014-browser
Optional Statistics on Nomination / Voting Form
Gender
The nomination and voting form asked “What is your gender? (Optional)” and gave a text box to allow any form of answer. Almost all of these could be regularised to various spellings of ‘male’ and ‘female’, anything else was regularised as ‘other’. As 2117 accepted ballots were cast, and 1366 people answered this question in some manner, it is evident that 751 people chose not to answer this question at all.
| Gender | Voting Form | Nominations Form |
| Female | 676 | 31 |
| Male | 676 | 47 |
| Other | 14 | 0 |
| Totals: | 1366 | 78 |
Countries
Those making nominations and voting were also asked “What is your current country of residence? (Optional)”. This is a clearer demographic marker of whether we’re expanding our international population of voters than asking “Where they are from/born/etc.” since people move around so where they are born often has little to do with the community of which they are now a part.
A map of the countries on the voting form created by Sheila Brennan is available at: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zo9DMbHeZEas.k7sWNQn7u5_4.
| Country | Voting Form | Nominations Form |
| Argentina | 5 | 4 |
| Australia | 65 | 1 |
| Austria | 5 | 1 |
| Belgium | 82 | 2 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 0 |
| Canada | 51 | 5 |
| Chile | 1 | 0 |
| China | 1 | 0 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 0 |
| Denmark | 6 | 1 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 0 |
| Egypt | 2 | 0 |
| Estonia | 1 | 0 |
| Finland | 4 | 0 |
| France | 115 | 5 |
| Germany | 52 | 4 |
| Greece | 2 | 0 |
| Haiti | 1 | 0 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 0 |
| Hungary | 2 | 0 |
| India | 3 | 0 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 0 |
| Ireland | 37 | 5 |
| Israel | 4 | 0 |
| Italy | 103 | 4 |
| Japan | 3 | 0 |
| Korea | 1 | 0 |
| Lithuania | 3 | 0 |
| Luxembourg | 12 | 1 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 0 |
| Mexico | 15 | 2 |
| Nepal | 1 | 0 |
| Netherlands | 112 | 1 |
| New Zealand | 6 | 2 |
| Norway | 2 | 0 |
| Poland | 2 | 0 |
| Portugal | 1 | 0 |
| Romania | 8 | 0 |
| Russia | 2 | 0 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 0 |
| Singapore | 3 | 0 |
| Slovenia | 1 | 0 |
| South Africa | 1 | 0 |
| Spain | 34 | 4 |
| Sweden | 2 | 0 |
| Switzerland | 9 | 3 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 0 |
| Turkey | 2 | 0 |
| UK | 167 | 13 |
| USA | 554 | 19 |
| Totals: | 1494 | 78 |