Faces from Time magazine 1923-2014

Dataset1.csv: In this set, we extract 327,322 faces from our entire collection of 3389 issues, and automatically classified each face as male or female. We present this data as a single table with columns identifying the date, issue, page number, the coordinates identifying the position of the face on the page, and classification (male or female). The coordinates identifying the position of the face on the page are based on the size and resolution of the pages found in the “Time Vault”. Dataset 2.csv: Dataset 2 consists of 8,789 classified faces from 100 selected issues. Human labor was used to identify and extract 3,299 face images from 39 issues, which were later classified by another set of workers. This selection of 39 issues contains one issue per decade spanned by the archive plus one issue per year between 1961 and 1991, and the extracted face images were used to train the face extraction algorithm. The remaining 5,490 faces from 61 issues were extracted via machine learning before being classified by human coders. These 61 issues were chosen to complement the first selection of 39 issues: one issue per year for all years in the archive excluding those between 1961 and 1991. Thus, Dataset 2 contains fully-labelled faces from at least one issue per year.