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mazron French police is opening their data

The project's notes are redacted in English: https://github.com/GendarmerieNationale/barometre-numerique-...

Here's some of the sources I've seen when working on that topic [1] : Census data, Phone books, Academic bibliographic databases (web of science, pubmed), list of athletes at olympic games, Wikipedia, LinkedIn, ...

[1] https://antonomase.fr/fi/mazieres_bms_names.pdf you'll find the references to some of these examples.

mazron Map of Surnames in Europe

Oh yeah ! Onomastics (the study of names) is very cool ! And a nice data point to add to personalized data. I did a project with that a while ago to study discrimination in France (https://namograph.antonomase.fr/) and it worked pretty well as long as you have large samples and stick to distributions comparisons.

Some nice use w.r.t. social mobility : https://www.amazon.fr/Son-Also-Rises-Surnames-Mobility-ebook...

A good API to work with : https://namsor.app/

mazron Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2020)

  Location: Berlin, Germany.
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Why not
  Technologies: People, Python
  Résumé/CV: https://www.antonomase.fr/
  Email: antoine dot mazieres at gmail dot com

mazron Inductive Machines and the AI Controversy

Thanks for posting that ! Would you have any question, let me know :)

mazron Ask HN: Is neuroscience-inspired machine learning the next big thing?

Neuroscience inspired machine learning is what's happening now. Others approaches are logic-based and evolutionnary inspirations. A nice piece commenting on some of that: https://neurovenge.antonomase.fr/

mazron Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

Web Browser: Chromium

Email Client: None

Terminal: Gnome Terminal

IDE: None

File manager: Gnome default

Basic Text Editor: gedit

IRC/Messaging Client: None

PDF Reader: Gnome Default

Office Suite: None

Calendar: None

Video Player: VLC

Music Player: VLC

Photo Viewer: Gnome default

Screen recording: Gnome Default

mazron Computational sociology

Come say Hi in Berlin if you're interested in this field ! http://cmb.huma-num.fr/

mazron Ask HN: Anyone interested in building tools for showing bias in news?

We have a small team of researcher on that topicm working from Berlin and Paris, come say Hi or get in touch ! :) http://cmb.huma-num.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Algodiv-Ge... A great article of O'Reilly about this topic too : https://medium.com/@timoreilly/media-in-the-age-of-algorithm...

mazron Causal Inference in Statistics: A Primer

For a quick and general purpose introduction on Causality, the Epilogue of a former book of Pearl is great : "The Art and Science of Cause and Effect" http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/BOOK-2K/causality2-epilogue.pdf

mazron Evolution of words frequencies in porn

Hi, I didn't release the code of the crawler, first, because it was not well-crafted enough to be released (quick and dirty linear programming), and second, because any change in the site you crawl calls for recrafting your code.

I used python, sometimes with Beautifulsoup, sometimes with lxml, both are very good for crawling. I would say BS is easier, and LXML cleaner.

mazron Evolution of words frequencies in porn

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hardcore%2Clov...

Not the same dataset though...