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

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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.
March 29, 2013 General

SmartCity : Geodemography, Onomastics and Megacities

Can the Big Data help make cities Smart AND Inclusive ? DataTuesday (Paris) : translation a presentation given on the 26th

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March 22, 2013 General

Russian money targeted in Cyprus

Since Lehman Brothers failure in 2008, there was kind of general feeling that governments would not allow any further banking failures

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March 20, 2013 General

Making sense of three Kanji : Chinese names and Japanese names

A hint at some work in progress : enjoying the beauty of Kanji and trying to make sense of every

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French in Africa, English in Africa
March 1, 2013 EthnoViz / FDI Magnet

Monitoring western investments in Africa [2/2] : a mapping of French vs. English director names

Note to the reader : this article was written on the 6th of January for the March 2013 Feature of

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The Memoires of Casanova
February 22, 2013 General

Can you thrive in Society, if your name is Tognolo? by Casanova

THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 on Guttenberg Mémoires de J. Casanova de Seingalt, écrits par lui-même sur Gallica [Unfortunately the

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February 9, 2013 EthnoViz / FDI Magnet

About travelling IDEAS and the Global Innovation GAP : South Korea

As a follow-up to the previous post, where we used onomastics to outline Poland as a country very sensitive to

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Polish brain juice top recipients (1993-2013)
February 4, 2013 EthnoViz / FDI Magnet

About travelling IDEAS and the Global Innovation GAP

[Jan 2014, on this topic : NamSor Applied Onomastics to help Lithuania become a talent magnet in BioTech] Recently, the French-based INSEAD

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Japanese and Russian Business Comunities in EU plus Switzerland (vFSmall)
January 28, 2013 EthnoViz / FDI Magnet

Indian, Chinese, Russian and Japanese directors in European Big Business – an onomastics view [2/2]

Today, with this map of Japanese and Russian business communities in Europe, we complete an earlier post about Indian and

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Olympic Athletes onomatic mille-feuille
January 20, 2013 EthnoViz

Human societies are fractal in their diversity – an onomastics proof

Just as the map of a coast looks exactly like a coast, regardless of the scale, you may find heterogeneity

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Onomastics of Indian and Chinese company directors in the European Union (EU plus Switzerland)
January 13, 2013 EthnoViz / FDI Magnet / General

Indian, Chinese, Russian and Japanese directors in European Big Business – an onomastics view [1/2]

In December 2012, we attempted to show graphically the cultural origins of about half a million directors of companies registered

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