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Does this graph make you feel old … or young?

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They say age is a relative thing. With this graph, you can tell how old (or young) you are, relative to everyone else. (I’ll let you decide whether this is a good thing, or a bad thing, hahaha!) Nathan Yau recently posted a graph on flowingdata.com that allows you to […]

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Indian Baby Population in US by State

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Folks, I was going thru few visualizations on Tableau’s website today and I came across this visualization Exploring the SSA Baby Names Dataset by one of the acclaimed Tableau professional….It made me thinking to explore of How many of those SSA baby names are of Indian American (Desi) descent…

I found a website online that had a list of popular Indian baby names…I read the data into SAS and made a Tableau Story out of it… Please take a few moments to play with this interesting viz…I hope you like it….

Exploring Indian Baby Names from SSA Data

Here’s the SAS code that went into the prep of the data…

/*Read Indian Baby Names by parsing the http URL */

libnamesharad “C:UsersSharadDesktopnamesbystate”;

%macroloop(type);

proc sql; drop table name; quit;

%doi=1 %to 60;

filename foo url

    “http://www.modernindianbabynames.com/modern_baby_name/starting_with/ANY/MF/Sikh/1560/&i.”;

      

data _null;

retain start recind recst recend hier;

length SN Name Meaning Gender Origin $ 100;

retain SN Name Meaning Gender Origin;

   infile foo length=len;

   input record $varying200.len;

   put record $varying200.len;

   if index(record,‘) then start=1;

   if index(record,‘

‘) then start=0;

   if index(record,‘) then delete;

   if index(record,‘
‘
) then do; recvalst=1; hier+1;; end;

   if index(record,‘

‘) then do; recvalend=1; delete; end;

   if index(record,‘ ‘ ) then do; recst=1; hier=0;delete; end;

   if index(record,‘

‘) then do; recst=0; hier=0;; end;

  

      if hier=1then do; record=tranwrd(record,‘
‘
,”); SN=strip(record); end;

      else if hier=2then do; record=tranwrd(record,‘
‘
,”); Name=strip(record); end;

      else if hier=3then do; record=tranwrd(record,‘
‘
,”); Meaning=strip(record); end;

      else if hier=4then do; record=tranwrd(record,‘
‘
,”); Gender=strip(record); end;

      else if hier=5then do; record=tranwrd(record,‘
‘
,”); Origin=strip(record); end;

      record=tranwrd(record,‘
‘
,”);

      record=tranwrd(record,‘

‘,”);

      record=strip(record);

   if index(record,‘

‘) and start then do; recend=1; hier=0; output; end;

   else delete;  

   keep SN Name Meaning Gender Origin;

run;

OPTION SPOOL;

proc append data=_null base=sharad.&type force; run;

%end;

%mendloop;

%loop(Hindi);

/*

Make a list of Indian Names that definetly sound Indian or Closely Indian

Y – Yes

P – Indian Possibility

*/

dataSharad.Def_IndiaNames;

infilecards4 dlm=’09’xmissover;

lengthName $ 100 IndianorNot $ 1;

inputName IndianorNot;

Name=strip(propcase(Name));

cards;

Name  Indian

Tina  P

Tanya P

Maya  P

Trisha      Y

Nadia P

Amir  P

Aisha P

Tanisha     P

Chandra     P

Chaya P

Rohan Y

—-and 1000’s of other records—

;

run;

/*

Join all available Indian Names

*/

dataSharad.ALLNames;

setSharad.telugu

 sharad.bengali sharad.hindi sharad.sikh;

 Name=translate(Name,”,“‘”);

 ifcompress(Name)=” thendelete;

 dropSNO SN;

run;

/*

Remove Dups

*/

procsort data=Sharad.ALLNames noduprecs;  by Name; run;

/*

Re-purpose the data a bit

*/

dataSharad.IndianNames(rename=(dMeaning=Meaning dGender=IGender dOrigin=Origin));

lengthdMeaning $ 100 dGender $15dOrigin $ 100;

retaindMeaning dGender dOrigin;

setSharad.ALLNames;

byName;

if  first.name then

do;

dMeaning=”;

dOrigin=”;

dGender=”;

end;

ifindex(strip(dMeaning),strip(Meaning)) eq 0then  dMeaning=catx(‘ OR ‘,strip(dMeaning),strip(Meaning));

ifindex(strip(dOrigin),strip(Origin)) eq 0then  dOrigin=catx(‘ ,’,strip(dOrigin),strip(Origin));;

ifindex(strip(dGender),strip(Gender)) eq 0then  dGender=catx(‘ OR ‘,strip(dGender),strip(Gender));;

ifdGender in (“Boy OR Girl”,“Girl OR Boy”) thendGender=“Boy OR Girl”;

dGender=strip(dGender);

if  last.name thenoutput;

keepName dMeaning dGender dOrigin;

run;

/*

Read US Gov SSA Baby Names data fields

*/

filenameallst “C:UsersSharadDesktopnamesbystateallallstates.txt”;

dataSharad.USNames;

infileallst dlm=‘,’dsd missoverfirstobs=2;

lengthState $ 2 Gender $1Year $4 Name $ 50;

inputState Gender Year Name Occurences;

run;

/*

Merge US Gov SSA Baby Names data with Indian Names Data

*/

procsql;

createtable sharad.IndNames as

selectA.*,IGender,Meaning,Origin

fromSharad.USNames A

leftjoin Sharad.IndianNames B

onA.name=B.name

orderby A.name;

quit;

/*

Merge US Gov SSA Baby Names data with Hand picked Indian Data

*/

procsql;

createtable sharad.DefinitelyIndian as

selectA.*,

case

whenA.name=B.name and IndianorNot=‘Y’then ‘Indian Name’

whenA.name=B.name and IndianorNot=‘P’then ‘Likely an Indian Name’

else‘Non-Indian Name’

endas IndianDescent length=10

fromsharad.IndNames A

leftjoin Sharad.Def_IndiaNames B

onA.name=B.name

;

quit;

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