QUICKSTART.md

#Gender Identification By Time A Python program to identify the gender of personal names based on when a person may have been born.

Created in February 2014 by Bridget Baird and Cameron Blevins

##Quick Start Guide

1. Create a directory that contains:

• GenderID.py
• ReferenceData folder
• A text file (tab-delimited) containing names whose gender you want identified
• prefixLst.txt
• suffixLst.txt

2. Open GenderID.py

• Specify the name of the input file containing your data
• Specify the name of the output file in which the program will write the results
• If you have dates associated with your names, leave dateVaries = True. If not, change it to dateVaries = False, then change the defaultYear variable to an approximate year for your data.
• If you have FULL names (first and last names together) in the first column, leave firstLastTogether = True. If you only have first names in this column, change it to firstLastTogether = False.

3. Open your text file. Make sure the first column contains names and the second column contains dates (if you have them).
4. Run the program.