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Inferring The World's Gender and Ethnic Diversity using Personal Names

  • Free Name Gender API, by NamSor
January 6, 2023 General

French court admits onomastic proof of discrimination

The Cour de Cassation is the highest court of law in France. A judgment of the Court of Cassation of December 14, 2022 recognizes patronymic analysis – statistics on the ethno-cultural origin of names – as ex post proof of discrimination in hiring.

IOM Diaspora Mapping Toolkit Pagecover
December 6, 2022 Machine Learning

IOM Diaspora Mapping Toolkit : big data and onomastics

The IOM Diaspora Mapping Toolkit analyses pros & cons for the use of big data and onomastics for Diaspora Mapping. It is based on field experience learned from several project conducted by The International Organization for Migration (IOM) using NamSor technology. One particular case study cited in the report is Skills Mapping Through Big Data: A case study of Armenian diaspora in the United States of America and France

Le concours externe des IRA : une réussite différenciée selon l’âge, le sexe, le niveau de diplôme et l’origine supposée des candidats 8 NOVEMBRE 2022 AUTRES PUBLICATIONS ÉMILIE ARNOULT PIERRE VILLEDIEU MARIE PREVOT (DGAFP)
November 24, 2022 General

New study on discrimination in French public sector

As France doesn’t collect ethnic statistics, organizations in the public and private sector need to work around the lack of data to analyze potential discriminations.

DARES, the directorate of the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Integration which produces analyses, studies and statistics on the themes of work, employment, vocational training and social dialogue has used NamSor to prepare a study on competitive exams in the public sector.

Irish Twitter GEOnomastics
December 31, 2013 General

NamSor and @FDIMagnet wish you a Happy New Year 2015!

About : self organized FDI related Twitter names ; dataviz done using GEPHI.

Italian, Russina, Turkish Twitter
December 10, 2013 EthnoViz

Making sense of Big Data : mining Twitter names

Millions of geo tweets in various languages, discussing anything from ‘hey, I’m here‘ to finance, geopolitics or marketing. How do

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France Dubai Tourism
December 10, 2013 General

Cap Digital Meetup : What Tourism in 5 years?

On October 23, the French IT Cluster CapDigital organized the first Digital Tourism Meetup and on that same day Paris City

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Irish Twitter GEOnomastics
December 3, 2013 General

What’s in a Twitter name? A glance at the Irish digital Diaspora

To jump directly to the interactive map, click here : http://cdb.io/1beWaVB (onomastics.co.uk reblog) It’s been a while since I published a first

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October 15, 2013 General

Africa Forum – 100 innovations for sustainable development – LAST CALL

The deadline to submit applications to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs’s call for projects ‘Africa Forum, 100 innovations for sustainable

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Elian CARSENAT
September 18, 2013 FDI Magnet / General

Onomastics for Business Data Mining

This is a reblog of ParisTech Review original article. Can name data mining help economic development? As of today, the main

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June 21, 2013 EthnoViz

Onomastics and international event marketing : post hoc analysis of OECD Forum 2013

Choosing the right location to organize international exhibitions and events is critical to reach your targeted audience. For open events

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wlef
June 10, 2013 FDI Magnet / General

Leveraging a large Diaspora for Economic growth

Any country with a strong outflows of bright young people faces the following dilemma: is it a threat or an

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May 30, 2013 FDI Magnet / General

IPA innovates to originate FDI deals using onomastics

NamSor™ announces FDI Magnet, a new offering for Investment Promotion Agencies. NamSor™ name recognition software filters data from millions of

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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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