Editing Community Data Science Workshops (Fall 2020)/Day 1 baby names project download

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

==Baby Names==

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===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 <code> BabyNames.ipynb</code>. 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 

<code>There were 10 boys named mako </code>

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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