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Inferring The World's Gender and Ethnic Diversity using Personal Names

  • Free Name Gender API, by NamSor

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NamSor™ is a European designer of name recognition software. Our mission is to help make sense of the Big Data and understand international flows of money, ideas and people. Our specialized data mining software recognizes the linguistic or cultural origin of personal names in any alphabet / language, with fine grain and high accuracy. Names are meaningful : we use sociolinguistics to extract their semantics and deliver actionable intelligence.
December 4, 2014 General

An API to measure the Gender Gap accross all professional fields

NamSor API was presented yesterday at the amazing APIDays.io Paris conference. The Gender Gap Grader project will be featured as

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November 27, 2014 FDI Magnet / General

UNCTAD WIF14 – Investing in Sustainable Development

The fourth version of the World Investment Forum, organized by @UNCTAD, was held in Geneva with over 3,000 participants from

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November 13, 2014 General

NamSor and Gender Gap Grader are in AngelList database of Startups, VC, Angels

We’ve analyzed the gender gap in AngelList database of 650k profiles… we’re in it too. In perfect balance. Follow us

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November 10, 2014 General

Popular baby names in Tripura, Incredible India

Incredible India is the name of successful place marketing initiative launched in 2002 by the Indian Government using the incredible

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October 27, 2014 FDI Magnet / General

Place Marketing Forum 2014 – what role for a Diaspora in attracting FDI, Tourism?

Organized by the “Regional Attractiveness and Place Marketing Chair” of Sciences Po Aix, for its second edition, Place Marketing Forum

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October 13, 2014 General

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

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October 3, 2014 FDI Magnet / General

Data mining the global start-ups and venture capital ecosystem

‘AngelList is a platform for startups—started by the dudes who do Venture Hacks.’ It lists over 650k profiles of entrepreneurs,

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September 29, 2014 General

moving voices from the grave

It’s not every day one hears the voice of Tolstoy, expressing himself in French. It didn’t occur during a session

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September 10, 2014 General

Video tutorial – How to Extract the Gender of Personal Names, using RapidMiner

[UPDATE – this page is deprecated. Please check RapidMiner tutorials on how to connect to a simple REST API such

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September 9, 2014 General

What’s the Gender Gap in the European Union Whoiswho?

This summer, the European Union has published an updated version of The Official Directory of the European Union [mirror: FYWW13001ENC.pdf,

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