Show HN: An API for gender classification
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Show HN: An API for gender classification
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Re: Show HN: An API for gender classification
#2I started searching for the most gender ambiguous names I could think of like "Jesse", "Alex", "Erin", etc. The best one I've found so far is "Angel" at 51.1% male.
Re: Show HN: An API for gender classification
#3I started searching for the most gender ambiguous names I could think of like "Jesse", "Alex", "Erin", etc. The best one I've found so far is "Angel" at 51.1% male.
Jessie has exactly 50.0000% :)
Re: Show HN: An API for gender classification
#4My name has a 50.444139% chance of being female.
In the present case, the API is, unfortunately, incorrect.
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#5why bother with a naive bayes classifier, why not just use the dictionary, when it matches the percentage is simple the ratio of the genders? I don't see the need for a classifier, I was hoping it was going to do something clever like guess the gender of a document's author.
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#6My name has a 50.444139% chance of being female. In the present case, the API is, unfortunately, incorrect.
My name has 99.99...% chance of being male. But when I change it to the English/Anglophone version, the chance is only 60.641%.
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#7Microsoft is unknown, Linux is male, and Apple is female.
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#8my Name is unknown . http://gender.hankstoever.com/classify/shobhit
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#9John - 57.3% ?
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#10John - 57.3% ?
Definitely some odd results:
Michael = 52%, Thomas = 62% (although Tom = 98%)