instate 0.1.1

Instate: predict the state of residence from last name

Using the Indian electoral rolls data (2017), we provide a Python package that takes the last name of a person and gives its distribution across states.

Potential Use Cases

India has 22 official languages. And to serve such a diverse language base is a challenge for businesses and surveyors. To the extent that businesses have access to the last name (and no other information) and in absence of other data that allows us to model a person’s spoken language, the distribution of last name across states is the best we have.

Installation

We strongly recommend installing indicate inside a Python virtual environment (see venv documentation)

pip install instate

Examples

from instate import last_state
last_dat <- pd.read_csv("last_dat.csv")
last_state_dat <- last_state(last_dat, "dhingra")
print(last_state_dat)

API

instate exposes 3 functions.

• last_state

  • takes a pandas dataframe, the column name for the df column with the last names, and produces a dataframe with 31 more columns, reflecting the number of states for which we have the data.

::

from instate import last_state df = pd.DataFrame(‘last_name’: [‘Dhingra’, ‘Sood’, ‘Gowda’]}) last_state(df, “last_name”).iloc[:, : 5] >>> last_name __last_name andaman andhra arunachal 0 Dhingra dhingra 0.001737 0.000744 0.000000 1 Sood sood 0.000258 0.002492 0.000043 2 Gowda gowda 0.000000 0.528533 0.000000

• pred_last_state

  • takes a pandas dataframe, the column name with the last names, and produces a dataframe with XX more columns, reflecting the number of states for which we have the data.

• state_to_lang

  • takes a pandas dataframe, the column name with the state, and appends census mappings from state to languages

from instate import state_to_lang
df = pd.DataFrame({'last_name': ['dhingra', 'sood', 'gowda']})
state_last = last_state(df, "last_name")
small_state = state_last.loc[:, "andaman":"utt"]
state_last["modal_state"] = small_state.idxmax(axis = 1)
state_to_lang(state_last, "modal_state")[["last_name", "modal_state", "official_languages"]]

      last_name   modal_state official_languages
  0   dhingra     delhi       Hindi, English
  1   sood        punjab      Punjabi
  2   gowda       andhra      Telugu

Data

The underlying data for the package can be accessed at: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZXMVTJ

Evaluation

The model has a top-3 accuracy of 85.3% on unseen names.

Authors

Atul Dhingra and Gaurav Sood

Contributor Code of Conduct

The project welcomes contributions from everyone! In fact, it depends on it. To maintain this welcoming atmosphere, and to collaborate in a fun and productive way, we expect contributors to the project to abide by the Contributor Code of Conduct.

License

The package is released under the MIT License.