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| == Setup == | | == Setup == |
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| ===Download the Baby Names project===
| | You only need to follow the instructions on [[DS4UX_(Spring_2016)/Baby_Names_download|this page]]. |
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| 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:
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| # Right click the following file, click "Save Target as..." or "Save link as...", and save it to your Desktop directory: http://jtmorgan.net/ds4ux/week3/babynames.zip
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| # 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.
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| ===Test the Baby Names code===
| | * [[Baby Names handout]] - something like the [[Wordplay handout]] would be nice! |
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| Start a command prompt and navigate to the Desktop\babynames directory where the Baby Names code lives.
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| <div style="background-color:#CEE7DA; width:80%; padding:1.2em;">
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| '''On Windows'''
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| If the Baby Names project is at <code>C:\Users\'''{Your User Name}'''\Desktop\babynames</code>,
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| cd C:\Users\'''{Your User Name}'''\Desktop\babynames
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| will change you into that directory
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| <div style="background-color:#D8E8FF; width:80%; padding:1.2em;">
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| '''On Mac'''
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| 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 <code>~/Desktop/babynames</code>,
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| cd ~/Desktop/babynames
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| will change you into that directory
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| </div>
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| '''On both operating systems'''
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| Once you've navigated to the correct directory, type
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| ls
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| to show you the source code files in that directory.
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| One of the files is <code>babynames1.py</code>, which has a ".py" extension indicating that it is a Python script. Type:
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| python babynames1.py
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| at the command prompt to execute the babynames1.py Python script. It should output text that says something like this:
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| There were 12 boys named mako
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| We'll walk through the rest of the important details in the session! You will have a chance to get a head start on the [[DS4UX_(Spring_2016)/Day_3_coding_challenge|Day 3 coding challenges]] during project time at the end of class. | | We'll walk through the rest of the important details in the session! |
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| | == Ideas for exercises == |
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| | # Search for your own name. Are there both boys and girls that have your name? Is it more popular for one group than for the other? |
| | # Are there more boys' names or girls' names? What about for particular first letters? What about for ''every'' first letter? |
| | # How people are described in the dataset (assuming nobody is counted more than once)? |
| | # What is the longest name in the dataset? |
| | # How many boys' names are also girls' names? How many girls' names are also boys' names? |
| | # How many names are subsets of other names? |
| | # Write a program that will take a name as input and return the number of girls and boys with that name. |
| | # What is the most popular girls' name that is also a boys' name? |
| | # Take a prefix as input and print the number of boys and girls with that prefix (i.e., "m" would list babies whose names start with "m" and "ma" would list babies whose names start with "ma", etc). |
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| [[Category:DS4UX (Spring 2016)]] | | [[Category:DS4UX (Spring 2016)]] |