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Category: Gender

January 31, 2018 Gender / General

Understanding NamSor API precision for Gender inference

Using a library or an APIs to infer the gender from a given name, is a common way to fix

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October 10, 2017 Gender / General

Gender in the Global Research Landscape Report

A new research by Elsevier used NamSor Gender API along with other methods, to provide an analysis of research performance through

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September 26, 2017 Gender / General

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

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July 4, 2017 EthnoViz / Gender / General

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.

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June 30, 2017 Gender / General

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

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June 26, 2017 Baby Names / Gender

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.

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June 16, 2017 Gender

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.

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