Solution Review: Reading Auto MPG Dataset
This lesson provides the solution to the previous challenge.
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Reading the Dataset #
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import pandas as pd # calling pandas moduledef read_csv():# Define the column names as a listnames = ["mpg", "cylinders", "displacement", "horsepower", "weight", "acceleration", "model_year", "origin", "car_name"]# Read in the CSV file from the webpage using the defined column namesdf = pd.read_csv("auto-mpg.data", header=None, names=names, delim_whitespace=True)return df.shape# Calling the function and printing the resultprint(read_csv())
According to the problem statement, we need to get the shape of Auto MPG Dataset as an output. In the code above, at line 1, we imported the pandas
module for reading the dataset. Next, we implemented the function read_csv()
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Look at its header at line 3. At line 6, we set the name of the ...