Ira Yaari
Data analyst, researcher and economist.
Sci-Fi geek, beer lover, and have a personal intrest in unique names.
Session
Names hold stories. And not just any stories, but stories of communities. They can represent a shared history, folklore, or even values. But in any case, they showcase the representation people have of their society and their inner self.
With that in mind, I took the CBS’s files on birth names and used Python to derive meaning, comparing OpenAI with several common naming sites, and came up with a single definition. Having one meaning for each name, I clustered the names to groups, trying to answer:
• What themes we can find in Israeli names?
• How these themes changed throughout the years (and how this represents changes in the Israeli society)?
• Are there differences in themes between the more and the lesser common names?
In this talk I will try to answer these questions and reflect on the changes we’ve gone through between Sarah and Moshe, to Tamar and David.