Social listening : breaking down Twitter opinion by gender and location
A new paper published in the Global Journal of Enterprise Information System explores how social media analysis can be applied to
Author: NamSor.app
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.
Cultural biases in African bibliometrics
Yvonne Mburu is a scientist from Kenya and founder of Med in Africa. She wants to create a global network of African scientists and health professionals to tackle the cultural biases that affect the visibility of African science.
Genderizing LinkedIn for Social Studies
LinkedIn has become the largest professional network, globally. It is a rich source of data for social researchers working on
NamSor at UCLA Diaspora Lab Day
Last year, we presented NamSor ethnic name classification software at University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA Diaspora Lab Day. Watch the demo video.
Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire) baby names
Top 20 baby names of Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire). We’re working hard to make NamSor the best API to process African names, both for Gender studies as well as Diaspora studies.
#PAS17 global networks in aerospace
We’re at Paris Airshow ‘Le Bourget’ and many investment promotion agencies are there too, looking at attracting FDI. Global networks can help.
VivaTech : international, yet imbalanced
VivaTech : more international, Viva Technologies closes the gender gap but remains imbalanced when it comes to international gaps (North vs. Central & South America, Europe, Asia or Africa)
What’s the Gender Gap at #VivaTech 2017?
35% of ~581 speakers at VivaTech 2017 were women. Now, anyone can help dis-aggregate gender data, simply by inferring gender accurately from personal names.
VivaTech, the intl. startup event Paris needs?
VivaTech 2016 was Male and French. Is VivaTech 2017 the international and diverse startup event Paris needs?
Making the World More Inclusive in 2017
This week, NamSor API reached a symbolic landmark. We’ve processed over 1bn names, since the API was launched. It’s a
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