Name parser and formatter (for politicians, individuals, and organizations)
Project description
This is the name parser and standardizer for the datacommons project. It now supports politician, individual and organization names.
Installation
Installation is easy:
pip install -e git+http://github.com/sunlightlabs/name-cleaver.git#egg=name-cleaver
Usage
Basic usage is the same for each type of name, just import the relevant NameCleaver class from one of:
PoliticianNameCleaver
IndividualNameCleaver
OrganizationNameCleaver
Example:
from name_cleaver import PolicitianNameCleaver smith = PoliticianNameCleaver(‘Smith, Robert J’).parse()
print str(smith) => “Robert J Smith”