Hispanic, French, German names in the United-States

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NamSor has mapped Hispanic Twitter accounts around the world. Not just Hispanic: French and German as well.

This interactive world map of the Hispanic, French and German e-Diasporas was produced using Twitter account data.

To access the interactive map, click here: http://cdb.io/1dqVd2n

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Twitter is an interesting source because about 3 per cent of Twitter accounts opt-in to show their Tweet location (using GPS from a smartphone) and can be visualised on a map.

Our method of anthroponomical classification can be summarized as follow: judging from the Twitter name only and the publicly available list of all ~150k Olympic athletes since 1896, for which team would the person most likely run (of France, Spain, Germany)?

NamSor Applied Onomastics is a European vendor of name recognition software (NamSor sorts names), which aims to help understand international flows of money, ideas and people. namsor.com

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