Last-fm User and Artist Gender Repository

Dataset consisting of Last.fm listening events data with annotated gender labels for both users and artists. The dataset is generted to acompony the paper '<em>Exploring Artist Gender Bias in Music Recommendation</em>' submitted to the <strong>2nd</strong> <strong>Workshop on the Impact of Recommender Systems with ACM RecSys 2020.</strong> The dataset is formed from two Last.fm datasets: <strong>Schedl's Lfm-1b</strong> - LFM-1b-Le75.csv, LFM1b-MB-artists.txt <strong>Celma's Lfm-360k</strong> - LastFM360k-Le75.txt, LastFM360k-MB-artists.txt Artist gender data is recovered via a datawrangler configured to retrieve data from a locally configured version of the music ensicolopedia, MusicBrainz. Code repositories are made openly availible at the following link to elicit reproducibility: https://github.com/dshakes90/LFM-1b-MusicBrainz-Gender-Wrangler