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Feb 3, 2017 (Posted on Friday lab meeting)

  • Download the US Presidents data set: 1st column is the order, 2nd column is the name, the 3rd column is the year of inauguration; tab-separated
  • Your job is to create an R, Perl, or Python script called “us-presidents”, which will
  1. Read the table
  2. Store the original/correct order
  3. Shuffle/permute the rows and record the new order
  4. Count the number of matching orders
  5. Repeat Steps 3-4 for a 1000 times
  6. Plot histogram of the 1000 counts

Feb 10, 2017