Applied Supervised Learning with Python

Appendix

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This section is included to assist the students to perform the activities in the book. It includes detailed steps that are to be performed by the students to achieve the objectives of the activities.

Chapter 1: Python Machine Learning Toolkit

Activity 1: pandas Functions

Solution

1. Open a new Jupyter notebook.
2. Use pandas to load the Titanic dataset:

   import pandas as pd

   df = pd.read_csv('titanic.csv')

   Use the head() function on the dataset as follows:

   # Have a look at the first 5 sample of the data

   df.head()

   The output will be as follows:

   

   Figure 1.65: First five rows

   Use the describe function as follows:

   df.describe(include='all') ...