FAQs
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Q: What should we do if a name meets the inclusion criteria wrt. the bounding years but goes down to zero uses in a middle year?
A: Assume that never happens. If you find a case like that, let me know!
Incidentally, it looks like I never mention in the write-up that the SSA doesn't include names that have only a few occurrences. (See
here.)
Clarifications
None yet!
Corrections (fixed on the web)
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In two
grep
examples, a path was specified as a6/yob/yob1949.txt
instead of a6/yob/1949.txt
.
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There was a mangled link for '"a maze of twisty little passages, all alike"' in the label.rb write-up.
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The example output shown for Ms. Tong's "Addison" didn't have enough spaces after "Addison".