gender-guessing.py

import gender_guesser.detector as gender
import pandas as pd

# instatiate the detector
d = gender.Detector()

# this functions adds a gender column for a specific column
def guess_col_gender(col, suff='_gender', df=df, d=d):
    # extract first names by splitting by ' ' and choosing the first element
    first_names = [f.split(' ')[0] for f in df[col].tolist()]
    # guessing the gender
    genders = [d.get_gender(first_name) for first_name in first_names]
    # adding it as a col_gender column
    df[f'{col}{suff}'] = genders
    
    return df
    
# doing gender guessing for composers
df_g = guess_col_gender('composer', '_gender', df, d)