Rapidminer Onomastics Extension / Blog: Recent posts

In January this year, NamSor founder Elian CARSENAT was at RapidMiner Wisdom conference in New-York City. Discover theCUBE video. The Big Apple: the World owns a piece. We’ve analyzed NYC Open Data on Real Property (ACRIS) using RapidMiner with NamSor … Continue reading ->
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RapidMiner ‘empowers enterprises to easily mashup data, create predictive models and operationalize predictive analytics within any business process.‘ It is a leading mining tool for the ‘big data’.

At RapidMiner Wisdom 2015, the user conference that took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia – a new release was launched with two forever free editions and one commercial edition of RapidMiner™ Studio 6.5.

We’ve also updated our Names Processing Extension for RapidMiner and it offers all the functions found in NamSor API :... read more

This is a hands-on video tutorial on measuring the gender pay gap and other diversity analytics, with the example of open data published by the city of Palo Alto, California. The original file has a lot of data, but doesn't … Continue reading ->
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NamSor API was presented yesterday at the amazing APIDays.io Paris conference. The Gender Gap Grader project will be featured as a Keynote at the next APIDays conference in May. #APIDays Paris - NamSor API for 'Gender Gap Grader' from Nomtri … Continue reading ->
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The new version of RapidMiner Onomastics Extension is now running 50x to 100x faster for Mashape users, as it benefits from the new "batch" API endpoint than can determine the gender of hundreds of names at a time.

This functionality is useful for researchers in Gender Studies, as well as Data Scientists working on behavioural analysis. You'll find a video tutorial here
http://namesorts.com/2014/09/10/video-tutorial-how-to-extract-the-gender-of-personal-names-using-rapidminer/... read more

GendRE API, the API using applied onomastics to determine the likely gender of a personal names, has a new endpoint for 'batch' requests. In version 0.0.16, freemium users registered on Mashape can now genderize hundreds of personal names at a time.

The API automatically recognizes which culture to apply when assessing the gender of a personal name. Some examples: “Andrea Rossini” is most likely an Italian name and a male name, whereas “Andrea Parker” is most likely an anglosaxon name and a female name; 声涛周 is most likely male ; “O. Sokolova” is most likely female. ... read more

RapidMiner is a leading software for advanced analytics, including predictive analytics, data mining, and text mining. We've built an onomastics extension for RapidMiner to enrich any database and infer the gender of personal names of all languages/cultures/alphabets/countries. The GendRE API … Continue reading ->
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This summer, the European Union has published an updated version of The Official Directory of the European Union [mirror: FYWW13001ENC.pdf, in ZIP/Excel format TheEUDirectory_xls.zip]. The EU Directory is not a good candidate for the GenderGapGrader initiative - because it's not a … Continue reading ->
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[UPDATE July-2014 : NamSor Onomastics Extension is now available in RapidMiner MarketPlace] [UPDATE June-2014 : we have built an opensource (AGPL) extension for RapidMiner, get it on GitHub] With Open Data from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) and a gender prediction … Continue reading ->
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