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

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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.
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June 21, 2013 EthnoViz

Onomastics and international event marketing : post hoc analysis of OECD Forum 2013

Choosing the right location to organize international exhibitions and events is critical to reach your targeted audience. For open events

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June 10, 2013 FDI Magnet / General

Leveraging a large Diaspora for Economic growth

Any country with a strong outflows of bright young people faces the following dilemma: is it a threat or an

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May 30, 2013 FDI Magnet / General

IPA innovates to originate FDI deals using onomastics

NamSor™ announces FDI Magnet, a new offering for Investment Promotion Agencies. NamSor™ name recognition software filters data from millions of

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FDI Magnet
May 8, 2013 FDI Magnet / General

FDI Magnet, welcoming the first investment wave

So far we presented onomastics as a technique that could help monitor cross-border investments, especially as originating from or directed

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May 7, 2013 EthnoViz

Chinese names, colorful onomastics

Some more work in progress. No comment – yet.

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May 1, 2013 General

French-born terrorist Gilles Le Guen captured in northern Mali

The French-born terrorist Gilles Le Guen, a sailor originally from Brittany, was captured in northern Mali. His Arab name, after

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April 26, 2013 EthnoViz

Tsarnaev Brothers: The right kind of Caucasian

There has been a lot of confusion last week, in the aftermath of the identification of two suspect terrorists in

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April 9, 2013 EthnoViz

Onomastics to monitor Russian media

Business intelligence firm AESMA used NamSor name recognition software to analyze the coverage by the Russian media of Arab personalities and

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April 4, 2013 EthnoViz / FDI Magnet

Chinese, Japanese business communities in Latin America

To continue our tour of global business communities, this week we present the onomastics mapping of Chinese and Japanese company

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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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