Goals Today

• Focus on working with baby names and learning mpld3

Preparing for midterm

The focus for the next two weeks is on preparing for the midterm. I'm working on developing some quizzes to help you in that regard.

Baby Names

• Before you use Day_13_C_Baby_Names_MF_Completed.ipynb, try the approach in Day_13_B_Baby_Names_MF_Starter.ipynb

mpld3

• Day_13_A_mpl3d.ipynb
• MPLD3: Bringing Matplotlib to the Browser and jakevdp/mpld3

background:

A D3 Viewer for Matplotlib Visualizations and Matplotlib Tutorial ? mpl-tutorial 0.1 documentation D3 Plugins: Truly Interactive Matplotlib In Your Browser

Jake VandePlas' tutorials are great:

• Matplotlib Tutorial - Jake VanderPlas on Vimeo (SciPy 2012), companion website: Matplotlib Tutorial - mpl-tutorial 0.1 documentation, and github repo: jakevdp/mpl_tutorial

• Creating Interactive Applications in Matplotlib on Vimeo (PyData 2013) and jakevdp/matplotlib_pydata2013

use matplotlib magic

I've been using

%pylab inline

or

%pylab --no-import-all inline

We should instead use:

%matplotlib inline

to get matplotlib plots to show up inline in the IPython notebook . See nbviewer.ipython.org/github/ipython/ipython/blob/master/examples/notebooks/Part 3 - Plotting with Matplotlib.ipynb

Assignments / Homework

Assignment in nbviewer.ipython.org/github/rdhyee/working-open-data-2014/blob/master/notebooks/Day_13_B_Baby_Names_MF_Starter.ipynb:

Submit a notebook that describes what you've learned about the nature of ambigendered names in the baby names database. (Due date: Monday, March 10 Wed, March 12 at 11:5pm --> bCourses assignment) I'm interested in seeing what you do with the data set in this regard. At the minimum, show that you are able to run Day_13_C_Baby_Names_MF_Completed. Be creative and have fun.