Published October 23, 2023 | Version v2

The Economist Historical Advertisements - Faces Dataset

  • 1. Universität Mannheim
  • 1. KIT
  • 2. Universität Mannheim

Description

Description

This dataset contains 116.746 identified faces (bounding box location on image, predicted age and gender) for all historical advertisements from all 8,840 issues of The Economist magazine, years 1843 to 2014. Faces have been detected using the following library:  https://pythonrepo.com/repo/timesler-facenet-pytorch-python-deep-learning. You will need the The Economist Historical Advertisements - Master Dataset as well, to work with the data.

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TheEconomistHistoricalArchives-Faces.csv

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Variables

Name Description
Filename Unique identifier of the advertisement this face appears on
Bounding Box relative X1 Left-top coordinate of a rectangle identifying the face on the page, relative to the pixel coordinates of the image from column 2 ("URLs …") of the Master Dataset (which is related to this dataset by the unique identifier in column 1). Multiply this value by the width of the image to get the absolute x coordinate. If the ad is a multi page ad, the images from column 2 have to be horizontally concatenated first.
Bounding Box relative Y1 Left-top coordinate
Bounding Box relative X2 Right-bottom coordinate
Bounding Box relative Y2 Right-bottom coordinate
Segmentation confidence score Confidence of the neural network algorithm that these bounding boxes represent a face.
Size relative 1 = Face covers all of the ad; 0.5 = Face covers half the ad.
Age Predicted age of the face.
Gender Gender probability; 0 = male; 1 = female; 0.4 = 40% likelyhood of beeing female

Details

Resource type Open dataset
Title The Economist Historical Advertisements - Faces Dataset
Creators
  • Kluge, Stefan1 ORCID icon
  • Contributors
  • Nadj, Mario1
  • Knäble, Merlin1
  • Mädche, Alexander1
  • Gehrmann, Leonie2
  • Stahl, Florian2
  • Research Fields Economic & Social History
    Size 20.2 MB
    Formats Comma-separated values (CSV) (.csv)
    License(s) Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
    Companies GALE
    Countries United States
    Dates of collection October 23, 2023