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What sex has to do with databases and the beginning of Data Science

Today I ran into a new Google search engine I did not know yet and which is very interesting. You can find it under the following URL:  Google ngrams Working in the field of data management and data mining I thought it would be interesting to see the activity in our sector and compare it to something everybody knows. "Football" was not a correct choice because there is also "soccer" and because it excludes half of the writing population.  So I chose "sex" which does not exclude populations, is widely known and written about.  Next to that I added the terms "database", "big data", "interactive analysis", "data analysis" and "performance indicators". All well known terms in our world and know to the mostly a masculine part of the population.  I did a comparison on both American English and British English. If we look at the search results (until 2008 unfortunately) we can see that after Woodstoc