Community Data Science Workshops (Spring 2015)/April 10th OSX projects download

In this section, we'll download everything we need for tomorrow's projects.

Baby Names

Download the Baby Names project

You'll be playing with data from the list of all baby names in the US (used more than five times in a year) from the last several years:

1. Right click the following file, click "Save Target as..." or "Save link as...", and save it to your Desktop directory: http://mako.cc/teaching/2015/cdsw-spring/babynames.zip
2. The ".zip" extension on the above file indicates that it is a compressed Zip archive. We need to "extract" its contents. To do this, click on "Start", then "Computer", and navigate to your Desktop directory. Find babynames.zip on your Desktop and double-click on it to "unzip" it. That will create a folder called babynames containing several files.

Test the Baby Names code

Start a command prompt and navigate to the ~/Desktop/babynames directory where the Baby Names code lives. For example, if the Baby Names project is at ~/Desktop/babynames,

cd ~/Desktop/babynames

will change you into that directory, and

ls

will show you the source code files in that directory. One of the files is "babynames1.py", which has a ".py" extension indicating that it is a Python script. Type:

python babynames1.py

at the command prompt to execute the babynames1.py Python script. It should output text that says something like this:

There were 12 boys named mako

If it does not, let a staff member know.

Success!

You've completed setup for the Baby Names project.

State Capitals

We'll look at an example Python script that quizzes you on state capitals during the lecture on Saturday.

1. Right click the following file, click "Save Target as..." or "Save link as...", and save it to your Desktop directory: http://mako.cc/teaching/2015/cdsw-spring/state_capitals.py

Success!

You are done downloading the Saturday projects.