Introduction to Data Science in Python
Hillary Green-Lerman
Lead Data Scientist, Looker
Use in a calculation
credit_records.price.sum()
Plot data
plt.plot(ransom['letter'], ransom['frequency'])
print(credit_records.head())
suspect location date item price
0 Kirstine Smith Groceries R Us January 6, 2018 broccoli 1.25
1 Gertrude Cox Petroleum Plaza January 6, 2018 fizzy drink 1.90
2 Fred Frequentist Groceries R Us January 6, 2018 broccoli 1.25
3 Gertrude Cox Groceries R Us January 12, 2018 broccoli 1.25
4 Kirstine Smith Clothing Club January 9, 2018 shirt 14.25
'suspect'
'location'
'date'
'item'
'price'
suspect = credit_records['suspect']
print(suspect)
0 Kirstine Smith
1 Gertrude Cox
2 Fred Frequentist
3 Gertrude Cox
4 Kirstine Smith
5 Gertrude Cox
...
99 Gertrude Cox
100 Fred Frequentist
101 Gertrude Cox
102 Kirstine Smith
103 Ronald Aylmer Fisher
price = credit_records.price
print(price)
0 1.25
1 1.90
2 1.25
3 1.25
4 14.25
5 3.95
...
99 14.25
100 12.05
101 20.15
102 3.95
103 2.05
Use brackets and string for column names with spaces or special characters (-
, ?
, etc.)
police_report['Is Golden Retriever?']
NOT
police_report.Is Golden Retriever?
Object `Retriever` not found.
When using brackets and string, don't forget the quotes around the column name!
credit_report['location']
NOT
credit_report[location]
Object `location` not found.
Brackets, not parentheses
credit_report['location']
NOT
credit_report('location')
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TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-5-aabdb8981438> in <module>()
----> 1 credit_report('location')
TypeError: 'DataFrame' object is not callable
Introduction to Data Science in Python