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.
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 |
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