L&S 88 - Final Project Team 3 - Most Common Name

Jamie Xie, Jae Eu, Kai Chen

This project for L&S 88 attempts to recreate the analysis from the Five-Thirty-Eight article, Dear Mona, What's The Most Common Name in America? The purpose of this project is to attempt to reproduce the findings in the article regarding the most common first and last name combinations in the U.S as of 2013. For more detailed information, see our Pre-Analysis Plan.

Directory Structure

This repo contains a few subfolders which contain the elements of this project.

Folder	Description
data	data from the original analysis in CSV, TSV, and pip-separated format
images	image files used in the Jupyter Notebooks
notebooks	Jupyter Notebook files, including reproduction analysis using both pandas and datascience, as well as the Pre-Analysis Plan and a "blank" notebook
output	output data (same as original, for demo purposes) in CSV and TSV format
subassignments	Markdown files with submissions for final project sub-assignments

Sources

Chalabi, Mona and Flowers, Andrew. Dear Mona, What’s The Most Common Name In America? FiveThirtyEight. 2013 https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/whats-the-most-common-name-in-america/

FiveThirtyEight. Most Common Name. https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data.git

Popular Baby Names. Social Security Administration. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html