arthurfortes/br_gender

br_gender - Gender by name Python Lib (IBGE Info)

Description

br_gender predicts gender from Brazilian first names using data from the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica’s 2010 Census.

Requirements

Python 3

Install:

pip install br_gender

Usage

>>> from br_gender.base import br_gender_info

get_gender (method)

Returns gender of name. Possible results: Male, Famele, Unisex and Unk (for unknown cases).

Syntax:

• br_gender_info.get_gender('name')

Exemple:

>>> print(br_gender_info.get_gender('Arthur'))
Male

>>> print(br_gender_info.get_gender('Carla'))
Female

>>> print(br_gender_info.get_gender('Ariel'))
Unisex

>>> print(br_gender_info.get_gender('Atwesbwwhiel'))
Unk

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get_gender_by_majority (method)

Returns gender of name. Possible results: Male, Famele and Unk (for unknown cases). In this case, the function does not return 'unisex' and chooses to return the gender based on the number of examples per name.

Syntax:

• br_gender_info.get_gender('name')

Exemple:

>>> print(br_gender_info.get_gender('Arthur'))
Male

>>> print(br_gender_info.get_gender('Carla'))
Female

>>> print(br_gender_info.get_gender('Ariel'))
Unisex

>>> print(br_gender_info.get_gender('Atwesbwwhiel'))
Unk

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Lib Dev Information

Authors:	Arthur Fortes
Version:	0.1.0 of 10/2022