Identifying the mode of a dataset

The mode is the value that occurs most frequently in the dataset, or simply put, the most common value in a dataset. Unlike the mean and median, which must be applied to numeric values, the mode can be applied to both numeric and non-numeric values since the focus is on the frequency at which a value occurs. The mode provides quick insights into the most common value. It is a very useful statistic, especially when used alongside the mean and median of a dataset.

To analyze the mode of a dataset, we will use the mode method from the stats module in the scipy library in Python.

Getting ready

We will work with the COVID-19 cases again for this recipe.

How to do it…

We will explore how to compute the mode using the scipy library:

1. Import pandas and import the stats module from the scipy library:

   import pandas as pd
   from scipy import stats

2. Load the .csv into a dataframe using read_csv. Then subset the dataframe to include...