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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.
April 25, 2014 General

200€ Design Challenge for GendRE Android Gender App

Hey ! We’re launching a 10-day Design Challenge to create drawings the Open Source GendRE Gengerizer App, with 150€ for the

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April 23, 2014 General

RapidMiner to enrich Gender data

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

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April 16, 2014 General

Assessing the Gender Gap in the Film Industry

IMDb, the Internet Movie Database is a massive resource, offering a unique picture of the global film industry. The IMDb

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Dutch Digital Diaspora
March 28, 2014 EthnoViz / General

DataViz of the Dutch Digital Diaspora

As a final map in our Twitter GEOnomastics serie, we present today the Dutch e-Diaspora. To prepare the mapping, we

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March 27, 2014 General

Chinese Name Gender Guesser API

NEW : our dedicated demo web site chinese-names.app uses NamSor V2 API.  [Read also : Is China really becoming a

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March 25, 2014 General

New Gender App to enrich Android contacts Title information (Mr,Ms,…)

As a sample use case for the Gendre API, we’ve created an open source Android application on GitHub to enrich Android contacts

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March 14, 2014 General

Onomastics API for Gender Studies

[AGENDA] Meet us on 29 April 2014 at DataTuesday Paris with Girls in Tech Paris, on the topic ‘Women & Data’. Gender Equality

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March 5, 2014 EthnoViz

Hispanic, French, German names in the United-States

NamSor has mapped Hispanic Twitter accounts around the world. Not just Hispanic: French and German as well. This interactive world

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February 12, 2014 FDI Magnet / General

Announcing NamSor™ for Life Sciences

Life Sciences is a key sector for countries to create organic growth, as well as to attract Foreign Direct Investments

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January 17, 2014 EthnoViz / General

Revealing the Irish, French, Indonesian digital diasporas

An Irish Times @GenerationEmigration reblog NamSor technology has mapped the location of Irish-owned Twitter accounts around the world. To access

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