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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.
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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Chinese names
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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Russian Federation - a complex identity and ethnicity
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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Arab People In Russian Media (2013)
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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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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