---
title: "Markov Chains — Brad Jasper"
description: "A character-level Markov model that generates new startup names after training on CrunchBase company names."
url: https://bradjasper.com/projects/markov-chains/
---

[← Code](https://bradjasper.com/code/)

# Markov Chains

Archived · 2011 · Python

A one-off experiment.

A character-level Markov model that generates new startup names after training on CrunchBase company names.

- [Source on GitHub](https://github.com/bradjasper/Markov-Chains)

An early experiment in generating text from statistics: it learned which characters tend to follow which in real company names, then produced new, plausible ones. It came out of the same hunt for good names as [Domain Groovy](https://bradjasper.com/projects/domaingroovy/).