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AI for Medicine Course 3 Week 1 lecture notebook
Pandas for a Medical Dataset
Welcome to this lecture notebook! In this week's graded assignment, you will be using pandas quite often to work with dataframes.
- To get you ready for assignment, you'll familiarize yourself with some objects in the
pandas
library, along with their data types. - Then you'll see how you can leverage pandas to get information from a dataset.
Import Library
# import libraries
import pandas as pd
Load your data and check its shape
pandas.read_csv takes in a file name, assuming that the file is formatted as comma separated values (csv).
- You can choose one of the columns to be the row 'index', which is an ID associated with each row.