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Comment · 4 years ago
The project's notes are redacted in English: https://github.com/GendarmerieNationale/barometre-numerique-...
Comment · 4 years ago
Here's some of the sources I've seen when working on that topic [1] : Census data, Phone books, Academic bibliographic databases (web of science, pubmed), list of athletes at olympic games, Wikipedia, LinkedIn, ...
[1] https://antonomase.fr/fi/mazieres_bms_names.pdf you'll find the references to some of these examples.
Comment · 4 years ago
Oh yeah ! Onomastics (the study of names) is very cool ! And a nice data point to add to personalized data. I did a project with that a while ago to study discrimination in France (https://namograph.antonomase.fr/) and it worked pretty well as long as you have large samples and stick to distributions comparisons.
Some nice use w.r.t. social mobility : https://www.amazon.fr/Son-Also-Rises-Surnames-Mobility-ebook...
A good API to work with : https://namsor.app/