What Did we Learn and What to Expect in Assignment 2

Summary

Students are now expected to be able to:

• Demonstrate how to rename columns of a dataframe using .rename().
• Create new or columns in a dataframe using .assign() notation.
• Drop columns in a dataframe using .drop()
• Use df[] notation to filter rows of a dataframe.
• Calculate summary statistics on grouped objects using .groupby() and .agg().
• Explain when chaining is appropriate.
• Demonstrate chaining over multiple lines and verbs.

The assignment will concentrate on the learning objectives as well as building knowledge on existing concepts.

Attribution

The cereal dataset:

“80 Cereals” (c) by Chris Crawford is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported

On to Assignment 2!