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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.
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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International Business Communities in Africa (Italian vs. Portuguese)
January 7, 2013 EthnoViz / FDI Magnet

Monitoring western investments in Africa [1/2] : a mapping of Italian vs. Portuguese director names

Can onomastics be useful to monitor Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) across the globe? Global and local media, as well as

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December 29, 2012 FDI Magnet / General

European company directors onomastics mille-feuille (2012)

This arty colourful picture is a graphical view of the onomastics of about half a million company directors in the

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December 21, 2012 General

Name Is the Game, still

In 2003, Richard J. De Lotto and Kimberly Collins at Gartner published The ‘Name Is the Game’, a five-page document

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December 19, 2012 General

NamSor (NomTri) sorts NAMES, what do YOU do?

Onomastics or onomatology is the study of proper names of all kinds and the origins of names. [in French] About

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