Analyzing Your Dataset

Previously, we learned about the overall structure of a dataset and the kind of information it contains. Now, it is time to really dig into it and look at the values of each column.

First, we need to import the pandas package:

import pandas as pd

Then, we'll load the data into a pandas DataFrame:

file_url = 'https://github.com/PacktWorkshops/'\
           'The-Data-Science-Workshop/blob/'\
           'master/Chapter10/dataset/'\
           'Online%20Retail.xlsx?raw=true'
df = pd.read_excel(file_url)

The pandas package provides several methods so that you can display a snapshot of your dataset. The most popular ones are head(), tail(), and sample().

The head() method will show the top rows of your dataset. By default, pandas will display...