StringGender

StringGender nodejs library to find out the sex of a string or an email.

Why ?

For instance, in an emailing campaign, it was useful to get an overview of gender from participating people.

Demo

TODO http://darul-demo.herokuapp.com/string-gender

Install

TODO npm install string-gender

Usage

var sg = require('sg');
 
// non case sensitive
 
// single firstname
 
sg.getGender({string: 'Aaron'}, function(results) {
 
  // array
 
}
 
// composite firstname
 
sg.getGender({string: 'Jean-Paul'}, function(results) {
 
  // array
 
}
 
// with email
 
sg.getGender({string: 'julien.valery@github.com', email:true}, function(results) {
 
  // array
 
}
 

Return

[{
  doc: {
      countries: [
      {
        name: "great_britain"
        ISO: "GB"
        frequency: "2"
      },
      {
        name: "ireland",
        ISO: "IE",
        frequency: "2"
      },
      {
        name: "usa",
        ISO: "AU",
        frequency: "2"
      }],
      gender: "M",
      id: "aaron",
      name: "aaron"
    },  
    key: "M aaron",
    measure: 22.965674645305885
}]

Syntax for "gender" field

• M male first name
• 1M male name, if first part of name; else: mostly male name
• ?M mostly male name (= unisex name, which is mostly male)
• F female first name> 1F <female name, if first part of name; else: mostly female name
• ?F mostly female name (= unisex name, which is mostly female)
• ? unisex name (= can be male or female)

Details

• countries: list of countries for this name ( 1 to 13 in hexa code ) by frequency
• gender: sex gender
• id: document key
• name: firstname

Options

• string : string firstname or email
• email : boolean

Reminder

• demo
• fix bugs
• search by index
• search in json object
• format country in results by ISO codes
• index regexp options for splitting
• reformat, fix entries in dico

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Julien Valéry

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