Deriving age and gender from forenames for consumer analytics

Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services

Volumn 30, Issue , 2016, Pages 271-278

  Lansley, Guy ^a   Longley, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age; Big Data; Gender; Geodemographics; Social media

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; DATABASE; DEMOGRAPHY; GENDER; SOCIAL MEDIA;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84960498706     PISSN: 09696989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jretconser.2016.02.007     Document Type: Article

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