https://github.com/fgregg/ethnic-surnames

American Surnames by Country of Origin
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American Surnames by Country of Origin

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/fgregg/ethnic-surnames
• Owner: fgregg
• Created: 2013-07-04T09:42:26.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2013-07-04T16:46:23.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-15T09:55:51.501Z (3 months ago)
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American Surnames by Country of Origin

[Census 2000 Genealogy Data: Frequently Occurring Surnames from Census 2000](http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/data/2000surnames/index.html) 150K names with percentage white, black, asian, hispanic, two-race.

Useful links: http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/ethnic-heritage.html

42K Surnames http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Surnames

Useful links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_common_surnames_in_Europe

Ancestry http://factfinder2.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/11_5YR/B04001/0500000US17031.14000

If we assume that the conditional probability of a last name given a race or ethnicity is constant across the nation then



where 



* Can we get org-chart info added to budget positions? https://data.cityofchicago.org/Administration-Finance/Budget-2012-Budget-Ordinance-Positions-and-Salarie/4n2t-us8h?

* Can we get race/ethnic estimates for all employees

Previous literature

http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM10/paper/viewFile/1534/1828

http://www.publicprofiler.org/contact.php

http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~skiena/lydia/names.pdf with working code http://www.textmap.com/ethnicity

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/p/x/pxt162/papers/treeratpituk-aaai12.pdf