Community Data Science Workshops (Core)/Workshop/Baby Names/Setup

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:

Windows

Right click the following file, click "Save Target as..." or "Save link as...", and save it to your Desktop directory: https://github.com/CommunityDataScienceCollective/CDSW_Babynames/archive/master.zip
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 CDSW_Babynames-master.zip on your Desktop and double-click on it to "unzip" it. That will create a folder called babynames containing several files.

MacOS

Click the following link, select "Save file" and click "Okay" to start the download: https://github.com/CommunityDataScienceCollective/CDSW_Babynames/archive/master.zip
The file <t>CDSW_Babynames-master.zip</t> will be saved to your default download location (usually "Downloads"). We suggest that you move it to somewhere like your Desktop or Documents folder so you can find it easier.
The ".zip" extension on the above file indicates that it is a compressed Zip archive. We need to "extract" its contents. Double click <t>CDSW_Babynames-master.zip</t> to do this. It will create a folder called "CDSW_Babynames-master" that contains several files.

Test the Baby Names code

Start jupyter notebook and navigate to the Desktop\CDSW_Babynames-master.zip directory where the Baby Names code lives. Open BabyNames.ipynb. Run the first two cells that read (1):

 import ssadata

And (2):

 for name in ssadata.boys.keys():
     if name == "mako":
         print("There were " + str(ssadata.boys[name]) + " boys named " + name)

You should get the output

There were 10 boys named mako

If this doesn't work let a mentor 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.

Right click the following file, click "Save Target as..." or "Save link as...", and save it to your Desktop directory: https://communitydata.science/~mako/State_Capitals.ipynb

Success!

You are done downloading the Saturday projects.