#To get you started, here is how to read the data from the .csv file.
#The value returned is a list 1462 lists of strings.

#You will have to get rid of the first entry, which consists of the
#column headers, convert the strings to ints, and then transpose the
#2-dimensional list so that you have a list of 5 items, each of which
#is a list of 1461 ints.

import csv

def get_data():
    combinedlist=[]
    f=open('usbirths2000-2003.csv',newline='')
    reader=csv.reader(f)
    for item in reader:
        combinedlist.append(item)
    return combinedlist