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

  • Free Name Gender API, by NamSor

Author: Namsor

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.
January 21, 2015 FDI Magnet / General

What’s in a scientist name? Applying onomastics in scientometrics: the case of Cancer Research

The IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence is an international institutional non-profit association of ranking organizations, universities and other

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January 20, 2015 FDI Magnet / General

NamSor presented during Symposium on Academic Excellence

Our friend Tania Vichnevskaia of the French National Institute for Health (INSERM) presented the paper ‘Applying onomastics to scientometrics‘ yesterday

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January 8, 2015 General

What’s in a suspect terrorist name? Chérif Kouachi, Saïd Kouachi and Mourad Hamyd.

A year and half ago, terrorism stroke Boston and there was a confusion about the origin of the terrorists, the

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December 29, 2014 FDI Magnet / General

BusinessFrance, a globish name for France renewed global ambition

What’s in a name? We’ll hear a lot about Business France in 2015, the new organization to turn France into

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December 21, 2014 General

Business France, the new organization to turn France into a FDI Magnet

[Happy new year! cast your vote in our playful quizz #BusinessFrance logo design contest] Today, in French business newspaper Les

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December 17, 2014 General

Video Tutorial: NamSor extension for RapidMiner to measure a Genger Pay Gap and other Diversity Analytics

[NEW! Get your API Key directly from NamSor and use the online tool as a complement to RapidMiner] This is

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December 7, 2014 General

Recent Sony Hack, Diversity Problems and the Gender Pay Gap at Deloitte

The Recent Sony Hack Reveals Huge Diversity Problems and Gender Pay Gap Among Top-Level Executives in the film industry. This

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December 5, 2014 General

Popular names of Delhi, 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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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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