How to do it...

  1. Load in the college dataset and execute the same operations as the previous recipe to get only the numeric columns that are of interest:
>>> college = pd.read_csv('data/college.csv', index_col='INSTNM')>>> cols = ['MD_EARN_WNE_P10', 'GRAD_DEBT_MDN_SUPP']>>> for col in cols:        college[col] = pd.to_numeric(college[col], errors='coerce')>>> college_n = college.select_dtypes(include=[np.number])>>> criteria = college_n.nunique() == 2>>> binary_cols = college_n.columns[criteria].tolist()>>> college_n = college_n.drop(labels=binary_cols, axis='columns')
  1. Find the maximum of each column with the max method:
>>> college_n.max().head()SATVRMID         765.0
SATMTMID         785.0
UGDS          151558.0
UGDS_WHITE         1.0
UGDS_BLACK         1.0
dtype: float64
  1. Use the ...

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