My application attempts to answer the question:
"Um, like, what famous people share my birthday?"
I know. That's, like, no way, right?
Way!
Famous Birthday Finder
Born on this date
Ephraim Baron
Developing Data Products course
Who Shares My Birthday?
Sources of Data Awesomeness
I scoured the internet for sources of famous birthday information. After an exhaustive 10-minute search, I found the following two sites:
The data was awesome
Exploratory Data Analysis
Next I combined the data sets. Here's the birthday distribution by month:
bdays <- read.csv("assets/birthdays.csv", header=TRUE)
hist(bdays$Month, col="skyblue", xlab="Month", main="Birthdays per Month")
Inexplicably, January was the most popular. April is the cruelest month
Future Work
I'm ready to take my birthday work to the next level.
I want to create a birthday database of every person, ever, living or dead.
What do you think?
- Impossible
- Pointless
- Best idea ever!
- WTF?
No haters allowed
Happy birthday 2U!