Guess
Statistically determine a person's gender based on his / her name.
Guess.gender("Don Draper")
# => {:gender => "male", :confidence => 0.9965635738831615}
Guess.gender("Betty Draper")
# => {:gender => "female", :confidence => 0.9992498124531133}
Guess.gender("Mad Men")
# => {:gender => "unknown", :confidence => nil}
Statistical data obtained from the US Census Bureau, so it works best with American names.
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem "guess"
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install guess
Contributing
- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature
) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Added some feature'
) - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature
) - Create new Pull Request