GGG & AngelList – a making-of

Tools, methodology, data sources, data output used to produce the article GenderGapGrader: AngelList.

We’ve opened the free GendRE API which extracts gender from names. To make it usable by everyone, we’ve built an extension for RapidMiner, a leading open source data mining and predictive analytics software

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So you can run your own gender gap analysis, where and when it matters to you!

Data Sources:

• The AngelList API (http://angel.co/api)
• Sample API client TheAngelListAPI_SampleClient.zip
• Twitter (http://dev.twitter.com/)

Data Mining Tools:

• RapidMiner v6
• RapidMiner Onomastics Extension (Extract Gender Operator) v0.0.4
  • Get it from RapidMiner Market Place, OR
  • Get it from GitHub
  • Documentation and video Tutorial
• GendRE API v0.0.15/v0.0.16
  • Check out this explanation on using names (and onomastics) to estimate the Gender Gap
  • Get your API Key on Mashape.com for double precision and batch API with higher thoughput (x 50+)
• Plus, specials thanks to : MonetDB, PostgreSQL, Apache Tomcat, OpenJDK, Python, Ubuntu… and others.

Data Output:

• AngelList_Genderized.zip (TXT DELIMITED, UTF-8, ZIP)

Estimates:

• 201409_AngelList_Preanalysis_v003_Preview_vF.zip (EXCEL, ZIP)

Tutorial: