gender

Is the name IsFemale inappropriate for a database column?

Just browsing our db schema and found a field named 'IsFemale' Is the name good, or is it kinda laughable? ...

Does anyone know of a good library for mapping a person's name to his or her sex?

I am looking for a library or database that can provide guesses about whether a person is male or female based on his or her name or nickname. Something like john => "M", mary => "F", alex => "A", #ambiguous I am looking for something that supports names other than English names (such as Japanese, Indian, etc.). Before I get anoth...

Gender problem in a django i18n translation

I need to solve a gender translation problem, and Django doesn't seem to have gettext contexts implemented yet... I need to translate from english: <p>Welcome, {{ username }}</p> In two forms of spanish, one for each gender. If user is a male: <p>Bienvenido, {{ username }}</p> and if is a female: <p>Bienvenida, {{ username }}</p>...

Recognize Age/Gender from an image

Hello, I am wondering if it is possible/if any research has been done/any existing programs available to recognize multiple faces in an image and classify them according to gender and approximate age. Technology etc. is not of main importance here as long as it can be done. ...

Find the gender from a name

Hi guys, I recently confronted with a weird yet interesting question. The questions is as follows: Need to write a program which can give the gender as output based on the name. Example: INPUT --> John Michael Britney OUTPUT--> male male female So this ...

"sex" field in Users.getInfo in Facebook API

This is a noob question. According to Facebook API documentation, the sex field in Users.getInfo() function returns values based on users' locale. Hence, determine the gender of user is difficult. Any solution suggested? ...

Facebook Graph API: user gender

The old Facebook API provided the user sex/gender as part of the default user data. Apparently the new Graph API does not provide that information, even though the documentation says that it does. I've heard people say that you need to request special permissions to get it and other pieces of data, but I have not been successful in get...