NamSor Blog

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

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.

May 3, 2018 Gender / General

A gender add-on for PowerBI

With our open source connector, any PowerBI table that has personal names can be enriched with gender information or other diversity analytics (country of origin / ethnicity …)

April 30, 2018 Gender / General

Personal names to study diversity?

French researchers have used patronyms to explore diversity amongst different population groups and professions. In France, where ethnic statistics are not collected, this new approach provides interesting insights about French society.

March 19, 2018 Gender / General

The Gender Gap in Computer Science — A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract— The low share of women in computer science is documented by many surveys. Most of these studies are based on registrations or enrolments of universities or other scientific institutions. In this paper, we present a new approach to a) analyse the gender gap in the group of scientists that are currently active in research and b) classify differences for different fields of computer science. This group comprises professors, industrial researchers, senior lecturers, postdoctoral researchers, and doctoral students shortly before finishing their theses. The proportion of women in a specific scientific area of computer science might provide valuable information for strategies to recruit women as postdocs or professors.