{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": { "collapsed": true }, "source": [ "## 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" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "collapsed": false }, "outputs": [], "source": [ "f = open(\"births.csv\", 'r')\n", "text = f.read()\n", "print(text)" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "collapsed": false }, "outputs": [], "source": [ "lines_list = text.split(\"\\n\")\n", "lines_list" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "collapsed": false }, "outputs": [], "source": [ "data_no_header = lines_list[1:len(lines_list)]\n", "days_counts = dict()\n", "\n", "for line in data_no_header:\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", "\n", "days_counts" ] } ], "metadata": { "anaconda-cloud": {}, "kernelspec": { "display_name": "Python [default]", "language": "python", "name": "python3" }, "language_info": { "codemirror_mode": { "name": "ipython", "version": 3 }, "file_extension": ".py", "mimetype": "text/x-python", "name": "python", "nbconvert_exporter": "python", "pygments_lexer": "ipython3", "version": "3.4.5" } }, "nbformat": 4, "nbformat_minor": 0 }