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I have submitted my proposal.

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## Overarching Question ## 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? ### 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 Friday the 13th is always seen as an unlucky day. Many parents may be hesitant to
sentences to describe why you are interested in it.* 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? ### What specific research questions will you investigate?
*List 2-4 specific research questions. Each should be answerable How does the 13th of the month impact birth rates?
using your data set.* How does the date of Friday the 13th impact birth rates?
## Data source ## Data source
This is a data set from Five Thirty Eight.
### What data set will you use to answer your overarching question? ### 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? ### Where is this data from?
*Describe the source of the data set--not just where you downloaded it, but This data was collected by the Social Security Administration. This is very reliable
the person or organization who gathered the data. Explain why you trust them.* data as it is coming straight from government records.
### What is this data about? ### What is this data about?
*Describe the nature of the data in the dataset, including the number of rows There are 5480 rows of the data. The columns that will be important to me are
and some of the columns which will be important to you.* date_of_the_month, day_of_the_week, and births.
## Methods ## Methods
### How will you use your data set to answer your quantitative questions? ### 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 First I will compare the average of the 13th of each month to each other day of the month.
to answer the question, and how you will present your answer (e.g. a chart or a table).* 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.