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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.