Activity 12.01 – understanding power usage

In this activity, as a data analyst involved in an energy conservation study, you are provided with data collected from a home in France over several years, which includes frequent measurements of total power usage as well as submeters that isolate the kitchen, laundry room, and some heating and air conditioning use. You have been asked to look at kitchen energy use and understand the time of day trends. The data is from the UCI repository (https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Individual+household+electric+power+consumption):

1. For this activity, all you will need is the pandas and numpy libraries. Load them in the first cell of the notebook:

   import pandas as pd
   import numpy as np

2. Read in the household_power_consumption.csv data from the Datasets directory, and list the first few rows:

Figure 12.42 – The household_power_consumption.csv data

3. You should inspect the data types of the...