Inspecting and summarizing data#

Learning Objectives#

After working through this topic, you should be able to:

  • Summarize datasets

  • Look at unique values and value_counts of data

  • Visualize the distribution of variables

  • Calculate summary statistics

Materials#

Video:

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pandas settings for getting “modern” behaviour and the plotly backend for graphs#

import pandas as pd

pd.options.mode.copy_on_write = True
pd.options.future.infer_string = True

Quiz#