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March 8, 2022 Gender / General

Barcelona University ‘Bloc de Lletres’ celebrates International Women’s Day #genderdatarevolution

For International Women’s Day, one blog post and one large study by European Commission illustrate how NamSor can be used to produced an analysis of the gender gap in a particular field, using open databases.

November 29, 2019 Gender / General

[NEW PAPER] Gendered geography: an analysis of authors in The Lancet Global Health

New research used NamSor Gender API to allocate likely gender to authors in The Lancet Global Health scientific journal. Findings

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November 18, 2019 Gender / General

根据中文名字判断性别,根据姓名的汉语拼音找到相似的中文名字,最大可能的用中文姓名识别身份和了解你的客户

根据中文名字判断性别,根据姓名的汉语拼音找到相似的中文名字,最大可能的用中文姓名识别身份和了解你的客户

July 17, 2019 General

Havard Business School : check out NamSor API :)

NamSor API to classify personal names by gender, country of origin, ‘race’ or ethnicity – is cited in Havard Business

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July 12, 2019 General

NamSor US ‘Race’ / Ethnicity model helps estimate diversity in Chicago Police

NamSor has been extensively used by H.R. platforms to provide recruiters with innovative diversity dashboards: is there a gender, racial

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April 24, 2019 General / Marketing

apiphonenumber : a new free API to validate global phone numbers

apiphonenumber : a new free API to validate global phone numbers, combining NamSor Origin and libphonenumber.

February 7, 2019 Baby Names / General

Popular names of Senegal, West Africa

Can personal names be used to conduct gender studies, or other social research in West Africa ? Personal names convey

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December 20, 2018 General

NamSor API v2 is coming soon

By the end of the week, NamSor v1 will have processed over four billion names since we launched our API

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June 6, 2018 General / Marketing

Better segmenting Facebook ad engagement

We’ve run an experiment : running a Facebook ad targeting both an audience in MALI and NIGERIA and using NamSor API to segment the engaged African audience.

June 5, 2018 Gender / General

NamSor connector for Algolia

What if you could build your a search engine with an inverted gender bias ? We’ve connected Algolia and NamSor API to search IMDB top 5000 movies.

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