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( )\ ) ( ( ( (()/( ( ( ( ) )\ ) )\ ) ( )\ ) ( ( /(_))( )\ ))\ ( ( ))\ ( /( ( (()/( (()/( ))\ ( (()/( ))\ )( (_)) )((_)/((_))\ ) )\ /((_) )(_)) )\ ) ((_)) /(_))_ /((_))\ ) ((_))((_|()\ / __|((_|_|_)) _(_/( ((_|_)) ((_)_ _(_/( _| | (_)) __(_)) _(_/( _| (_)) ((_) \__ Y _|| / -_) ' \)) _|/ -_) / _` | ' \)) _` | | (_ / -_) ' \)) _` / -_)| '_| |___|__||_\___|_||_|\__|\___| \__,_|_||_|\__,_| \___\___|_||_|\__,_\___||_| Science and Gender The goal of this application is to predict gender, with a reasonable margin of error, based only on author names found in articles published by PLoS accessible through http://api.plos.org/ ##### Resources ##### + Facebook Name and Gender Research data: - http://sites.google.com/site/facebooknamelist/namelist + List of common gender-neutral names: - http://evan.nixsyspaus.org/names/ - data: http://evan.nixsyspaus.org/names/ordered-names.txt + "Baby Name Guesser" gives HTML web page back for name query with gender probability value and name popularity - http://www.gpeters.com/names/baby-names.php + Wolfram Alpha returns name information for known names - e.g. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Mary - For single name (best to minimize errors) API query: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=name%2C+ELIZABETH - The Wolfram Alpha API only allows individual applications 2,000 queries per month >.< meaning, useless for us. + US Census Data (DUH) - Names by rank with female/male breakdown: http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/names_files.html - Male first data: http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/dist.male.first - Female first data: http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/dist.female.first + Also using Wikipedia lists of names, those organized by category - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Given_names_by_gender - Also, just realized there is a list of gender-neutral names: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Unisex_given_names - Didn't know about the Wikipedia API: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php until late, but successfully scraped the name data! You can find it in our data/ directory.
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