Re: personal name api

From: Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:21:04 -0500
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
On Jan 28, 2013, at 5:56 PM, Misty De Meo <misty.de.meo_at_MUSEUMFORHUMANRIGHTS.CA> wrote:

> This service uses Freebase to determine the gender of names, and offers a
> JSON API: http://genderednames.freebaseapps.com/


This looks like it will work quite well. Thank you.

Using the API and for a good time, I plan to extract the first names of subscribers from the Code4Lib mailing list and generate a pie chart illustrating the proportion of males to females. Sort of like digital humanities?

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ELM
Received on Tue Jan 29 2013 - 10:22:06 EST