Wrangle Babynamnes

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Schwab

This is not a lab

We will work with the five verbs to wrangle and graph babynames.

You should check out the dplyr cheatsheet.

There are three parts to today’s classwork.

  • Part 1. Make a narcissistic graph.

  • Part 2. 5 most popular names in the US since 1880

  • Part 3. Do presidents’ names influence babies’ names?

  • Part 4. Most and least most popular names.

Part 1 make a narcissistic graph

1. Wrangle your name out of babynames

You will want to filter() your name. I would make a vector of names c(“Nic”,“Nicholas”, “Nick”)

  • In what year was your name the most popular?

  • Facet by sex.

2. Create a line graph

Show the proportion of children with the same names as you over time.

You may want to use %in% instead of ==

Part 3. Do presidents’ names influence babies’ names?

Wrangle the data to show how president’s first names effect newborn babies’ names. Former Presidents

  • Choose three recent presidents (Donald Trump and Joe Biden might be too recent).

  • Make one graph that shows all three president’s names. Use geom_vline() to show the year they entered office.

Part 4: Most and least.

What is the year in which the most babies were born?

What is the year the least babies were born?