Balancinator
Balancinator
The Balancinator is a free and open-source software to visualize distribution of men and women within a specific unit. It was originally created in 2020 by Lilli & Matthias Mittner. The Balancinator allows anyone to build generic plots by inserting simple excel sheets instead of writing programming code.
The Balancinator allows you to:
- build generic plots that require no coding experiences
- create beautiful evidence to assess gender balance beyond coarse measurements
- visualize gender balance by means of diverging pips
- generate scatter plots that indicate increase or decrease of gender balance
- download high quality image files for your report, presentation, poster, role-up etc.
- update your annual data easily
- monitor gender balance within and across different units
- identify units at your organization that are in need of specific gender equality measures
- evaluate the effects of interventions at the units’ level
- develop effective and more gender-aware management practices at your institution
Balancinator explained in 4 steps
- Insert data
- either manually by selecting number of years and departments and insert number of men and women
- or upload excel sheet (or csv) by selecting the template (the head of the table should not be changed in style!)
- View your Balance Plot or Prestige Plot by clicking on the blue buttons
- Adjust colour, size and order
- Download images in .png or .pdf format
The Balancinator is still under construction. If you have any questions or feedback for improvement, please contact balancinator@uit.no.
- Double-click on a cell to edit.
- Press <TAB> to get to the next cell.
- Press <CRTL>+Enter to save the data.
Video tutorial in 4 minutes
About
The Balancinator operationalizes gender balance as numeric binary between men and women. When interpreting the plots we encourage you to acknowledge that there might be non-binary gender in your organization.
The Balancinator was developed within the Prestige Project (2018-2021/281862) at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, a research and intervention project with the goal to promote gender balance in research leadership. It builds on Duarte et al. (2020), Gender Distribution beyond Coarse Measurements, Report 01/2020, doi:10.7557/7.5687
The source code of the Balancinator is located at: https://github.com/ihrke/balancinator/. The Balance Plot is based on the divergingPips R-package developed by Richard Morey: https://github.com/richarddmorey/divergingPips.
© 2020 by Lilli Mittner & Matthias Mittner