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# Project proposal
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This planning document will also form the introduction of your
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argument.
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## Overarching Question
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What are the least popular birth dates in the United States?
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### What central question are you interested in exploring? Why are you interested in exploring this question?
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Friday the 13th is always seen as an unlucky day. Many parents may be hesitant to
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schedule a C-section or induction on this date due to the superstition of it.
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I was born on Friday the 13th and it has always been an interesting fact about myself.
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I never thought about the fact that this may be an uncommon birth date until I came across
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this data set on fivethirtyeight
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### What specific research questions will you investigate?
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How does the 13th of the month impact birth rates?
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How does the date of Friday the 13th impact birth rates?
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## Data source
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This is a data set from Five Thirty Eight.
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### What data set will you use to answer your overarching question?
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US_births_2000-2014_SSA.csv
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(https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/blob/master/births/README.md)
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### Where is this data from?
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This data was collected by the Social Security Administration. This is very reliable
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data as it is coming straight from government records.
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### What is this data about?
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There are 5480 rows of the data. The columns that will be important to me are
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date_of_the_month, day_of_the_week, and births.
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## Methods
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### How will you use your data set to answer your quantitative questions?
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First I will compare the average of the 13th of each month to each other day of the month.
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I will show this in a graph.
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Then I will compare the day of the week that falls on the 13th with each other. I will
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show this on a graph as well. |