Original data source?

[NickCrews]

Hi! I'm trying to create a Nickname database, similar to https://github.com/carltonnorthern/nickname-and-diminutive-names-lookup, but I'd like it to be based on actual real world data. I think that the facebook data dump could be useful for this, if I could link multiple accounts to having two different names, e.g. FB ID 12345 with a name of "Stephen" in one place and "Steve" in another. Not sure if the data is actually formatted in a way that would be useful. Could you explain where you got the data dump?

[philipperemy]

@NickCrews It's here:

• Names grouped by country #17 (comment)

Regarding Nicknames I didn't keep them but I can show you how the original data source looks like:

https://pastebin.com/r2UbU82J

I pasted 100 lignes containing the world "Stephen"

[NickCrews]

Thanks @philipperemy! This is helpful. Actually, if there is only one FB ID in the dataset (which is looks like there is, and which makes sense if the scrape happened at one single.point in time), then the technique I was thinking of wouldn't work. But thanks anyways, maybe I can think of another method. 😊

[philipperemy]

@NickCrews Good luck!!