GenderDetect

Simple API for detecting gender by first name.

API created based on brilliant datasets by mbejda:

• Black-Female-Names.csv
• Black-Male-Names.csv
• White-Male-Names.csv
• White-Female-Names.csv
• Hispanic-Male-Names.csv
• Hispanic-Female-Names.csv
• Indian-Male-Names.csv
• Indian-Female-Names.csv

More datasets are here: http://mbejda.github.io

Demo:

https://gender-detect-ex.herokuapp.com/detect?name=christina

Response like:

{"gender":"female","name":"christina","probability":1.0}

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/alexfilatov/gender_detect.git
$ cd gender_detect
$ mix deps.get
$ iex -S mix

Now you have it running on your http://localhost:4000 and you can make requests:

http://localhost:4000/detect?name=christina

Contributing is sexy

• Fork the repo on GitHub
• Clone the project to your own machine
• Commit changes to your own branch
• Push your work back up to your fork
• Submit a Pull request so that we can review your changes