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Show HN: I Parsed Every Name from SSA Cards and Visualized the Data

4 pointsby aramsh23 days ago
Hi HN!<p>I’m Aram, a fourteen year old in Seattle. I recently found out that the social security administration (SSA) provides datasets of every name on a social security card (1880-2023)! So i made a tool for people to graph them, compare them with other names, view the most popular names of years, and even see how many people are alive with a name (using a rough actuary db also from the ssa). I would love to hear y’all’s thoughts!<p>It&#x27;s also open source <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aramshiva&#x2F;nomen">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aramshiva&#x2F;nomen</a> if you want to check out the code

3 comments

novon23 days ago
Awesome! Really interesting to see the name patterns change over time.
202816323 days ago
cool project! i wonder some other cool projects with this dataset, one that comes to mind is seeing names that have similar graphs&#x2F;trends over time to see similar names
marmar0910223 days ago
Thats a great idea! excited to dig in