Community Data Science Workshops (Core)/Workshop/Baby Names/Setup: Difference between revisions

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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:

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-autumn/babynames.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 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 jupyter notebook and navigate to the Desktop\babynames directory where the Baby Names code lives. Open BabyNames.ipynb. Run the first two cells that read:

 import ssadata
 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.

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 ===Test the Baby Names code===
-Start a command prompt and navigate to the Desktop\babynames directory where the Baby Names code lives.
+Start jupyter notebook and navigate to the Desktop\babynames directory where the Baby Names code lives.  Open <code> BabyNames.ipynb</code>. Run the first two cells that read:
-<div style="background-color:#CEE7DA; width:80%; padding:1.2em;">
+  import ssadata
-'''On Windows'''
+  for name in ssadata.boys.keys():
+      if name == "mako":
+          print("There were " + str(ssadata.boys[name]) + " boys named " + name)
-If the Baby Names project is at <code>C:\Users\'''{Your User Name}'''\Desktop\babynames</code>,
+You should get the output
- cd C:\Users\'''{Your User Name}'''\Desktop\babynames
+<code>There were 10 boys named mako </code>
-will change you into that directory.
+If this doesn't work let a mentor know.
-Another way to navigate to a directory is to go there using Windows Explorer, clicking into the navigation bar, and typing "powershell" followed by RETURN. This will cause a command shell to open with the current directory already set to the location where you were browsing.
-</div>
-<div style="background-color:#D8E8FF; width:80%; padding:1.2em;">
-'''On Mac'''
-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>:
- cd ~/Desktop/babynames
-will change you into that directory.
-</div>
-'''On both operating systems'''
-Once you've navigated to the correct directory, type
- ls
-to see the source code files in that directory.
-One of the files is <code>babynames1.py</code>, 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 mentor know.
 ===Success!===
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 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..." to save it to your Desktop directory: http://mako.cc/teaching/2015/cdsw-spring/state_capitals.py
+# 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!==
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