Once you have downloaded and installed everything in the previous recipe, you can read the dataset with Python and then start doing some preliminary analysis to get a sense of what the data you have looks like.
The dataset that we'll explore in this chapter was created by Alvaredo, Facundo, Anthony B. Atkinson, Thomas Piketty, and Emmanuel Saez, The World Top Incomes Database, http://topincomes.g-mond.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/, 10/12/2013. It contains global information about the highest incomes per country for approximately the past 100 years, gleaned from tax records.
