How to do it...

Now, let's perform some data manipulation steps: 

  1. First, we will read the data in HousePrices.csv from our current working directory and create our first DataFrame for manipulation. We name the DataFrame housepricesdata, as follows:
housepricesdata = pd.read_csv("HousePrices.csv")
  1. Let's now take a look at our DataFrame and see how it looks:
# See first five observations from tophousepricesdata.head(5)

You might not be able to see all the rows; Jupyter will truncate some of the variables. In order to view all of the rows and columns for any output in Jupyter, execute the following commands:

# Setting options to display all rows and columns pd.options.display.max_rows = None pd.options.display.max_columns = None

  1. We can ...

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