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== Python for Everybody == | == Python for Everybody == | ||
Chapter 9: | * Chapter 9: Exercises 2, 3, 4*, 5* | ||
* Chapter 10: Exercises 1, 2, 3* | |||
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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? | ||
# 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 concern you?) | # How often does the least common name occur? (Does that concern you?) | ||
# Are there more boys names or girls names? | # Are there 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 names are described in the dataset (i.e., how unique boy names and unique girl names are there)? | # How many boys and girls names are described in the dataset (i.e., how unique boy names and unique girl names are there)? | ||
# How many boys names are also girls names? How many girls names are also boys names? | # How many boys names are also girls names? How many girls names are also boys names? | ||
# What is the most popular girl name that is also a boy name? | # What is the most popular girl name that is also a boy name? | ||
=== Above and beyond === | === Above and beyond === | ||
# Write a function that takes a prefix as input and prints the number of boys and girls with that prefix (e.g., get_names("m") would list all names that start with "m" and get_names("ma") would only list those that start with "ma"). | # Write a function that takes a prefix as input and prints the number of boys and girls with that prefix (e.g., get_names("m") would list all names that start with "m" and get_names("ma") would only list those that start with "ma"). | ||
# 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. | # 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. | ||
# Reuse and modify the code at the end of [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jdfoote/Intro-to-Programming-and-Data-Science/master/summer-2020//week_5_exercises.ipynb today's notebook] so that it prints a dictionary of the total population of cities that start with each letter of the alphabet. | # Reuse and modify the code at the end of [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jdfoote/Intro-to-Programming-and-Data-Science/master/summer-2020//week_5_exercises.ipynb today's notebook] so that it prints a dictionary of the total population of cities that start with each letter of the alphabet. | ||
