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+"""Plot the number of edits vs. article creation date, for male and female bios."""
+import wikibios
+from matplotlib import pyplot
+from operator import itemgetter
+
+figure = pyplot.figure()
+
+rows_female_by_firstedit = sorted(wikibios.rows_female, key=itemgetter('firstedit'))
+firstedit_female_medians = []
+mean_edits_female_by_firstedit = []
+N = 1000
+i = 0
+while i + N <= len(rows_female_by_firstedit):
+ chunk = rows_female_by_firstedit[i:i+N]
+ i = i + N
+
+ firstedit_female_medians.append(chunk[N / 2]['firstedit'])
+
+ total_edits = 0.0
+ for row in chunk:
+ total_edits = total_edits + row['edits']
+ mean_edits = total_edits / N
+ mean_edits_female_by_firstedit.append(mean_edits)
+
+rows_male_by_firstedit = sorted(wikibios.rows_male, key=itemgetter('firstedit'))
+firstedit_male_medians = []
+mean_edits_male_by_firstedit = []
+i = 0
+while i + N <= len(rows_male_by_firstedit):
+ chunk = rows_male_by_firstedit[i:i+N]
+ i = i + N
+
+ firstedit_male_medians.append(chunk[N / 2]['firstedit'])
+
+ total_edits = 0.0
+ for row in chunk:
+ total_edits = total_edits + row['edits']
+ mean_edits = total_edits / N
+ mean_edits_male_by_firstedit.append(mean_edits)
+
+axes = figure.gca()
+axes.plot(firstedit_female_medians, mean_edits_female_by_firstedit, label='Female')
+axes.plot(firstedit_male_medians, mean_edits_male_by_firstedit, label='Male')
+axes.set_xlabel('First Edit Date')
+axes.set_ylabel('Mean Number of Edits')
+axes.legend()
+
+figure.savefig('edits.pdf')