Merge pull request #15 from dataquestio/feature/srini/addmission207

Added Mission 207

Mission207Solutions.ipynb

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+    "## Birth Dates In The United States\n",
+    "\n",
+    "The raw data behind the story **Some People Are Too Superstitious To Have A Baby On Friday The 13th**, which you can read [here](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/some-people-are-too-superstitious-to-have-a-baby-on-friday-the-13th/).\n",
+    "\n",
+    "We'll be working with the data set from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National National Center for Health Statistics.  The data set has the following structure:\n",
+    "\n",
+    "- `year` - Year\n",
+    "- `month` - Month\n",
+    "- `date_of_month` - Day number of the month\n",
+    "- `day_of_week` - Day of week, where 1 is Monday and 7 is Sunday\n",
+    "- `births` - Number of births"
+   ]
+  },
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+   "source": [
+    "f = open(\"births.csv\", 'r')\n",
+    "text = f.read()\n",
+    "print(text)"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "metadata": {
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+   },
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+   "source": [
+    "lines_list = text.split(\"\\n\")\n",
+    "lines_list"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "metadata": {
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+   "source": [
+    "days_counts = dict()\n",
+    "count = 0\n",
+    "\n",
+    "for line in lines_list:\n",
+    "    if count != 0:\n",
+    "        split_line = line.split(\",\")\n",
+    "        day_of_week = split_line[3]\n",
+    "        num_births = int(split_line[4])\n",
+    "        \n",
+    "        if day_of_week in days_counts:\n",
+    "            days_counts[day_of_week] = days_counts[day_of_week] + num_births\n",
+    "        else:\n",
+    "            days_counts[day_of_week] = num_births\n",
+    "    if count == 0:\n",
+    "        count += 1\n",
+    "\n",
+    "days_counts"
+   ]
+  }
+ ],
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