An exoplanet is simply a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar system, so from here on out we will refer to both collectively as planets. Let's read in our planets data now:
>>> planets = pd.read_csv('data/planets.csv')
Some interesting tasks we can do with this data would be to find clusters of similar planets based on their orbits and try to predict how long a year is on a planet, in Earth days. This is called the orbit period:
| period | name | eccentricity | description | discoverymethod | periastrontime | lastupdate | semimajoraxis | mass | periastron | list | discoveryyear | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 326.03 | 11 Com b | 0.231 | 11 Com b is a brown dwarf-mass companion to th... | RV | 2452899.60 | 15/09/20 | 1.290 | 19.400 | 94.800 | Confirmed planets | 2008.0 ... |
