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I have submitted my proposal.

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## Overarching Question
What are the least popular birth dates in the United States?
### What central question are you interested in exploring? Why are you interested in exploring this question?
*This should be the big picture question that you ask; use at least 5
sentences to describe why you are interested in it.*
Friday the 13th is always seen as an unlucky day. Many parents may be hesitant to
schedule a C-section or induction on this date due to the superstition of it.
I was born on Friday the 13th and it has always been an interesting fact about myself.
I never thought about the fact that this may be an uncommon birth date until I came across
this data set on fivethirtyeight
### What specific research questions will you investigate?
*List 2-4 specific research questions. Each should be answerable
using your data set.*
How does the 13th of the month impact birth rates?
How does the date of Friday the 13th impact birth rates?
## Data source
This is a data set from Five Thirty Eight.
### What data set will you use to answer your overarching question?
*Give the title of your data set and provide a link to your data.*
US_births_2000-2014_SSA.csv
(https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/blob/master/births/README.md)
### Where is this data from?
*Describe the source of the data set--not just where you downloaded it, but
the person or organization who gathered the data. Explain why you trust them.*
This data was collected by the Social Security Administration. This is very reliable
data as it is coming straight from government records.
### What is this data about?
*Describe the nature of the data in the dataset, including the number of rows
and some of the columns which will be important to you.*
There are 5480 rows of the data. The columns that will be important to me are
date_of_the_month, day_of_the_week, and births.
## Methods
### How will you use your data set to answer your quantitative questions?
*For each research question, explain what you will do with the data set
to answer the question, and how you will present your answer (e.g. a chart or a table).*
First I will compare the average of the 13th of each month to each other day of the month.
I will show this in a graph.
Then I will compare the day of the week that falls on the 13th with each other. I will
show this on a graph as well.