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== Baby Names == | == Baby Names == | ||
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How many babies were born last year with your name? Are a wider variety of names used for boys or for girls? What are the most popular names used for both boys and girls? This session will use data from the US Social Security Administration on baby names from the last several years to answer these questions and more! | [[Baby Names]]: How many babies were born last year with your name? Are a wider variety of names used for boys or for girls? What are the most popular names used for both boys and girls? This session will use data from the US Social Security Administration on baby names from the last several years to answer these questions and more! | ||
== Goals == | == Goals == | ||
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== Setup == | == Setup == | ||
You only need to follow the instructions within the section marked "Baby Names" | You only need to follow the instructions within the section marked "Baby Names" at the following URLs: | ||
* [[Community Data Science Workshops (Spring 2015)/April 10th Windows projects download#Baby_Names|Windows]] | |||
* [[Community Data Science Workshops (Spring 2015)/April 10th OSX projects download#Baby_Names|OS X]] | |||
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* [[Baby Names handout]] - something like the [[Wordplay handout]] would be nice! | * [[Baby Names handout]] - something like the [[Wordplay handout]] would be nice! | ||
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== Ideas for exercises == | == Ideas for exercises == | ||
# 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? | # 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 | # Are there more boys names or girls names? What about for particular first letters? What about for ''every'' first letter? | ||
# How many boys and girls are described in the dataset (i.e., how many boys and girls born in | # How many boys and girls are described in the dataset (i.e., how many boys and girls born in 2013 have names given to at least four others)? | ||
# What is the longest name in the dataset? | # What is the longest name in the dataset? | ||
# How many boys | # How many boys names are also girls names? How many girls names are also boys names? | ||
# How many names are subsets of other 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. | # 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 | # 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). | # 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). | ||
