Gender detection library
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# Gender Detector
Gender detector is a Python library for guessing a person’s gender by his/her first name. This library is based on [beauvoir](https://github.com/jeremybmerrill/beauvoir) with support for United States, United Kingdom, Argentina and Uruguay.
This is still in beta stages, use with precaution
© 2014 Marcos Vanetta. Available under GPL2 License. See LICENSE.
# Datasets
UK, from [OpenGenderTracking project](http://opengendertracking.github.com)
US, from [OpenGenderTracking project](http://opengendertracking.github.com)
AR, from [Names query site](http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/areas/registrocivil/nombres/busqueda/buscador_nombres.php?menu_id=16082) from the goverment of the City of Buenos Aires. this is a small sample, use with precaution!.
UY, from [Civil registry](https://catalogodatos.gub.uy/dataset/partidas-de-registro-civil-de-montevideo) in Montevideo. Same as in AR, Use with precaution!
# How to use it
Nothing too fancy, just install:
pip install gender-detector
And then:
`python from gender_detector import GenderDetector detector = GenderDetector('us') # It can also be ar, uk, uy. detector.guess('Marcos') # => 'male' `
# TODO:
Add information about statistics
Better datasets
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