A Twitter and Google+ study of online gender gaps shows some surprising results.
![Research shows that on countries with bigger offline gender inequalities women do better than men online [AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20149512315826734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

A Twitter and Google+ study of online gender gaps shows some surprising results.
![Research shows that on countries with bigger offline gender inequalities women do better than men online [AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20149512315826734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Datasets from Twitter allows us to accurately gauge the level of polarisation across Egypt’s political landscape.
!["Big data makes it possible to address research questions quantitatively and with little effort that, previously, could only be addressed qualitatively", writes Ingmar Weber [Getty Images]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/2013927143251255734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)