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Show HN: An API for gender classification
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#22I 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.
How about the worst score for an unambiguous name? I got 56.3% male for "David".
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#23I 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.
This is pretty fun lol. I searched for Santa and it said 99% female haha.
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#24Neat. Should probably call out that it's an API for "gender classification of english names". Did you build this mostly for learning/personal purposes?
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#25The only reliable way to find out someone's gender is to ask them what gender they currently think they are. There are more than two genders and an individual's gender can change with time. A better strategy all-round would to be ask yourself whether you need to know someone's gender. I can think of very few legitimate reasons to know and record a user's gender and many of them can be dealt with by simply asking them…
One use I've come across for inferring genders was tackling record depupliction across multiple data sources. In one data set we might have the gender information of an individual but have it be missing in another.
Turns out gender is great to include in a blocking keys to reduce number of comparisons. Extrapolating an inferred gender in the dataset without one was incredibly helpful.
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#26I 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.
"Kelly" is 50.16% female, surprisingly
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#27Without a location parameter this is pretty useless. Andrea for example is a male name in Spain and Italy as far as I know. Also this: http://www.cscyphers.com/blog/2012/06/28/falsehoods-programm...
Andrea is a female name in Spain, unless it's in very specific regions that I don't know of (source: I'm Spanish). I think you're right about Italy, though.
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#28I 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.
There is an entire Wikipedia page on Unisex names [1]. Most Punjabi Sikh first names are applicable to both genders.
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#29This is great fun, could you embed share options? I could trigger a share-war amongst my friends!
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#30I 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.
Adrian, 51.067064%