Ig Nobel Prize Winners 1991-2022

Context The Ig Nobel Prize is a satiric prize awarded annually since 1991 to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research awarded each year in mid-September, around the time the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced. Its aim is to "honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." The name of the award is a pun on the Nobel Prize, which it parodies, and on the word ignoble ("not noble").

Organized by the scientific humor magazine, Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), the Ig Nobel Prizes are presented by Nobel laureates in a ceremony at the Sanders Theater, Harvard University, and are followed by the winners' public lectures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative, and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology, commented March Abrahams, editor of Annals of Improbable Research and co-sponsor of the awards, on the 2006 awards. All prizes are awarded for real achievements, except for three in 1991 and one in 1994, due to an erroneous press release.

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Ig Nobel Prize List of Ig Nobel Prize winners Content IG Nobel Prize Winners 1991-2022 Column Description Year The year in which the winner was announced Subject The category that was awarded Description Describing the winners and the contents of the study that was awarded that year References The references that refer to the study References Column Description Id Id for reference Reference Containing the researcher, the title of the study, the year of the study, etc. Ideas Here are some ideas that can be used on this dataset.

As learning material for text processing, for example, how to extract researchers, the role of researchers, and specific contents from the description. Find out what topics the winners research the most. Find out what subjects are most often in Ig Nobel Prize. Find out which countries or organizations contribute the most (of course this would require other external datasets to get to it). I'd love to see and learn great ideas from your work from this dataset.

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