Aaron K akosel
apendleton
/ letter_breakdown.py
Created
May 8, 2012 19:57
Optimal alphabetical breakdown of registration lines
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| """ | |
| This script ingests a CSV of last names and builds JSON output on the | |
| percentage of last names that begin with each letter of the alphabet. | |
| I initially ran it on a CSV-ified version of the US Census's list of all last | |
| names with more than 100 occurrences, and used the frequency field within that | |
| file to weigh the output, but absent that field, it assigns equal weight to | |
| each name, allowing us to also process our TCamp 2012 attendence list. | |
| Using the script on the Census data available in: |