Genderizer A simple, easy to use name genderization
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The Genderizer application was developed to be a small tool that will allow you to extrapolate the gender of a person based on their first name.Over time I have compiled a database of roughly six thousand unique first names along with the gender usually associated with that name. The names in this database are primarily English names, but also contains some other nationalities such as German, French, Russian, etc. I have used this database on a number of occasions for processes such as data entry validation, and data extrapolation.Gender is a very common dimension in data marts. A database project I worked on (some time ago) had a database of about 1.2 million names, addresses and phone numbers. If the client had wanted gender for the names on this list it would have been unavailable because that data was not collected with the list. The only way to get gender was to contact these people directly (unreasonable) or extract the approximate gender based on each individuals names.Another example is a data entry application where the data entry person did a poor job of entering the data. I used this database to cross match the gender entered by the user to the approximate gender determined through the database. The results were that roughly 15% of the data entered required review and nearly 10% was actually incorrect.

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