How to load a data set using Pandas

Introduction

Pandas is a Python library for data analysis and manipulation that is completely open source.

To load a dataset from a csv file,

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import pandas as pd

dataframe = pd.read_csv('path/to/file.csv')

pd.read_csv returns a DataFrame Object with all the values in the file as a python dictionary plus other handful methods for manipulating the data

# print a subset of the data
dataframe.head()
dataframe.info()

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