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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? | # 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? | ||
# | #* Hint: don't use a for loop for this one. | ||
# What is the most common name for each gender? | # What is the most common name for each gender? | ||
# What is the least common name? | # What is the least common name? | ||
# How often does the least common name occur? (Does that bother you?) | # How often does the least common name occur? (Does that bother you?) | ||
# Are there more boys names or girls names? | # Are there more boys names or girls names? | ||
# | #* What about that start with "a"? | ||
# | #* (Challenge!) For every letter, tell if there are more boys names or girls names. | ||
# What is the longest name in the dataset? | # What is the longest name in the dataset? | ||
# 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)? | # 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)? |
Revision as of 21:42, 20 January 2020
- [Finish https://campus.datacamp.com/courses/intro-to-python-for-data-science/] Chapters 1 - 3
Questions from Python For Everybody
- Chapter 5: Exercises 1 and 2
- Chapter 6: Exercise 5
- Chapter 8: Exercise 4*, 5*, 6
Baby Name Challenges
- 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?
- Hint: don't use a for loop for this one.
- What is the most common name for each gender?
- What is the least common name?
- How often does the least common name occur? (Does that bother you?)
- Are there more boys names or girls names?
- What about that start with "a"?
- (Challenge!) For every letter, tell if there are more boys names or girls names.
- What is the longest name in the dataset?
- 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)?
- How many boys names are also girls names? How many girls names are also boys names?
- What is the most popular girls name that is also a boys name?
- Discover at least one fact about the names that is not listed above.
- Challenge plot (in Excel) the number of people who share a name with n other people in the data set, where n is 4 to 19.