Baby Names. A collection of US baby name popularity data from 1880 to 2008.

github.com/hadley/data-baby-names

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Updates

October 2009
  • Add births info and script to extract interesting names
  • Combine both sex related explorations into one
September 2009
  • Try and figure out rate of sex errors
June 2009
  • Cleaned baby names by state
  • Explore top 5 names
  • Ruby code to convert html to csv
  • Download top baby names by state
  • Explore sex distribution of names used for both girls and boys
  • Explore usage of old testament names
May 2009
  • Give full link to baby-names.csv
  • Bigger image
  • Fix image links
  • Fix image links
  • Readme, not index\!
  • Add index page describing data and showing some plots
  • Improved explorations
  • Save out names as csv file
  • First pass of downloading, parsing, cleaning and exploring