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Re: New popularity tool
That's really great, Mike. Thank you! How did you get the output to show the top names for each country for more than one year span when it will list only up to 10 at a time? I hope I'm phrasing that in a somewhat understandable way. This is probably mathy statistics magic, but I'm curious since the names for each country would shift and move in and out of the top spots.
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The data is drawn from the lists at https://www.behindthename.com/top/Many of these lists include the number of bearers. If that's the case, then for each name in the top 100 I simply add up the bearers over the year span, and then take the top ten from that.If the list does not have number of bearers (i.e. it only has the name's rank) then I'll just use the average rank over the year span. This is definitely less accurate but it's the best that can be done.
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Awesome. Thanks for your hard work!
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