Solution 5.1

Perform the following steps to complete the activity:

1. For this activity, all you will need is the pandas library. Load it in the first cell of the notebook:

   import pandas as pd

2. Read in the mushroom.csv data from the Datasets directory and list the first five rows using .head():

   mushroom = pd.read_csv('../Datasets/mushroom.csv')
   mushroom.head()

This produces the following output:

Figure 15.14 – The mushroom data

Note

Please change the path of the dataset file (highlighted) based on where you have downloaded it on your system.

3. You see the class column and many visible attributes. List out all the columns to see what else there is to work with:

   mushroom.columns

This produces the following output:

Figure 15.15 – The columns of the mushroom DataFrame

4. In addition to class, you see population and habitat, which are not visible attributes. You decide to create a multi...