Question I investigated: How many of my female friends’ name ends with the letter ‘a’?
I remember sometime in my undergrad, while working on an assignment late night with a couple of friends, we asked each other the question: What’s the easiest/quickest query to filter female names from a list of mixed first names? I blurted out, just see the names that end in ‘a’- this was an observation I made some while back. Everybody thought about it for while (hmmm?) and nodded- So for this assignment, I wanted to test it quantitatively.
I used the Facebook API through an online console called APIGEE to get my friend list details. I was primarily interested in first names and gender. The APIGEE gave me a JSON file with all my friends’ data in it- I converted it to CSV and used Excel to apply the queries and group the data by a simple pivot table. I saved this data to a Google Doc Sheet.
Workflow:
Facebook API -> APIGEE (https://apigee.com) -> JSON to CVS (by http://jsfiddle.net/sturtevant/vUnF9/) -> Excel (Apply Queries, Consolidate Data by Pivot Tables) -> Sheetsee
A problem I faced was that Sheetsee’s chart example was so longer available. I had got everything loaded till the Google Doc. Just needed to troubleshoot and get the Sheetsee Code running.
Meanwhile, I used D3 to make the following Pie-Chart choosing from the large list of D3 examples available at http://christopheviau.com/d3list/