As part of DH Awards 2025 we collected a variety of statistics. These included optional ones collected on the nominations and voting form where users chose to submit them.
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. Also they may be removed if it is behind a paywall or members of the public can not get access to it. Mostly, however, it is duplicates, and indeed, people confusing nominating with voting.
| Nominations Submitted | 150 |
| Nominations Accepted | 120 |
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 times (e.g. using the same email address) then we’ll assume it is an accident and take the last ballot cast. If they have voted 3 or more times, we remove all of their votes. In general it is mostly people sometimes accidentally forgetting whether they have voted already.
| Ballots Submitted | 1919 |
| Ballots Accepted | 1883 |
Optional Statistics on Nomination / Voting Form
Gender
The nomination and voting form asked “(Optional) What is your current gender identity?” and instead of limiting it to a small set of choices of Male/Female/Other we gave multiple standard gender identities and related categories and enabled people to select more than one. The question was optional and there was no requirement to answer it.
| Gender | Nominations | Voting |
|---|---|---|
| Female | 56 | 573 |
| Male | 54 | 477 |
| I do not wish to answer (you do not have to, this question is optional) | 9 | 63 |
| Non-binary | 4 | 24 |
| Agender | 4 | |
| Agender, Male | 3 | |
| Other | 2 | 3 |
| Questioning or Unsure | 3 | |
| Female, I do not wish to answer (you do not have to, this question is optional) | 2 | |
| I do not wish to answer (you do not have to, this question is optional), Male | 2 | |
| Other, Non-binary, Male | 2 | |
| Transgender, Male | 2 | |
| Agender, Female, Male, Non-binary, Questioning or Unsure, Other, Genderfluid, Transgender | 1 | |
| Agender, Genderfluid | 1 | |
| Agender, Non-binary | 1 | |
| Agender, Non-binary, Female, Transgender | 1 | |
| Agender, Transgender, Non-binary | 2 | 1 |
| Female, Non-binary | 1 | |
| Female, Questioning or Unsure | 1 | 1 |
| Female, Transgender | 1 | |
| Genderfluid | 1 | |
| Male, I do not wish to answer (you do not have to, this question is optional) | 1 | |
| Male, Other | 1 | |
| Male, Questioning or Unsure | 1 | 1 |
| Non-binary, Female | 1 | 1 |
| Non-binary, Female, Genderfluid | 1 | |
| Non-binary, Male | 1 | |
| Non-binary, Transgender | 1 | |
| Other, Male | 1 | |
| Transgender, Non-binary | 1 | |
| Genderfluid, Other, I do not wish to answer (you do not have to, this question is optional), Male, Non-binary | 1 |
Countries
Those making nominations and voting were also asked “(Optional) Current country of residence?”. 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. These are normalised to ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes.
Note: For disputed areas I’ve tried to use use 3-letter code where it exists. Where multiple countries are listed, I’ve taken the first one. Apologies if in cleansing the data I’ve flattened anyone’s national self-determination.
| Country Codes | Nominations | Voting |
|---|---|---|
| AFG | 30 | |
| ALB | 1 | |
| ARE | 1 | |
| ARG | 4 | 2 |
| AUS | 1 | 4 |
| AUT | 5 | 25 |
| BEL | 7 | |
| BRA | 1 | 23 |
| CAN | 4 | 18 |
| CHL | 1 | |
| CHN | 15 | 32 |
| COL | 3 | 116 |
| CZE | 1 | 10 |
| DEU | 8 | 34 |
| ESP | 2 | 4 |
| EST | 1 | |
| FIN | 4 | |
| FRA | 4 | 64 |
| GBR | 19 | 123 |
| GEO | 1 | |
| GHA | 1 | |
| GRC | 6 | 9 |
| HKG | 3 | 22 |
| HRV | 1 | |
| IND | 1 | 37 |
| IRL | 3 | |
| IRQ | 1 | |
| ISL | 2 | |
| ITA | 5 | 17 |
| JPN | 12 | |
| KOR | 5 | 7 |
| LBN | 1 | |
| LTU | 4 | |
| LUX | 1 | |
| LVA | 1 | |
| MEX | 1 | 2 |
| NGA | 1 | 23 |
| NLD | 2 | 2 |
| NOR | 3 | |
| PAK | 2 | |
| PER | 1 | |
| POL | 10 | |
| PRI | 1 | |
| PRT | 3 | |
| RUS | 8 | 13 |
| SVN | 1 | |
| SWE | 3 | 6 |
| TGO | 1 | |
| TUR | 1 | |
| USA | 33 | 178 |
| VEN | 2 | |
| ZAF | 3 |
Professions
In the optional demographic questions we ask what type of job people have. This has been to see what constituencies are most involved in DH Awards. There is so much individual variation that a truly normalised list isn’t useful, but some basic orthographic tidying has been undertaken, so a word cloud shows some predictable professions leading significantly. The comparison is case insensitive and removing all punctuation.
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