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

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October 13, 2014 General

GGG & AngelList – a making-of

Tools, methodology, data sources, data output used to produce the article GenderGapGrader: AngelList. We’ve opened the free GendRE API which extracts gender

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October 3, 2014 FDI Magnet / General

Data mining the global start-ups and venture capital ecosystem

‘AngelList is a platform for startups—started by the dudes who do Venture Hacks.’ It lists over 650k profiles of entrepreneurs,

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September 29, 2014 General

moving voices from the grave

It’s not every day one hears the voice of Tolstoy, expressing himself in French. It didn’t occur during a session

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September 10, 2014 General

Video tutorial – How to Extract the Gender of Personal Names, using RapidMiner

[UPDATE – this page is deprecated. Please check RapidMiner tutorials on how to connect to a simple REST API such

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September 9, 2014 General

What’s the Gender Gap in the European Union Whoiswho?

This summer, the European Union has published an updated version of The Official Directory of the European Union [mirror: FYWW13001ENC.pdf,

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August 28, 2014 FDI Magnet / General

Onomastics to measure cultural bias in medical research

Elian CARSENAT, NamSor Applied Onomastics Dr. Evgeny Shokhenmayer, e-onomastics Abstract This project involves the analysis of about over ten million

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August 20, 2014 FDI Magnet / General

Is China really becoming a science and technology superpower?

[read the FULL PAPER : ‘Measuring cultural biases in medical research‘] [in French] Every now and then we hear stories

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August 4, 2014 General

GGG & The Airman Directory – a making-of

Tools, methodology and data used to produce the article ‘GenderGapGrader: Airline Pilots‘: We’re disclosing the data used in the study. We’ve opened

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August 1, 2014 EthnoViz

What’s in a name in 1914, in 2014?

(a onomastics.co.uk reblog) This month, starting 25th of August, the University of Glasgow will host the 25th International Congress of

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July 11, 2014 General

Very Scottish names

We’ve recently opened GendRE API to recognize the gender of international names. What makes it so accurate? We recognize the

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