4.1. Exercises

Datetime Questions

Practice Processing Dates

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Let’s read in data and parse a datetime column as well as calculate the hockey team’s oldest and youngest player.

Tasks:

• Read in the canucks.csv file from the data folder and parse the Birth Date column. Save this as an object named canucks.
• Find the oldest player’s date of birth and save the Timestamp as oldest.
• Find the youngest player’s date of birth and save the Timestamp as youngest.
• Find the age difference between the two players in years to 2 decimal places. Save this as an object name age_range.
• Display age_range.

Hint 1

• Are you using the argument parse_dates while reading in the data?
• The oldest player has the min() date of birth.
• The youngest player has the max() date of birth.
• Are you subtracting the min value from the max value?
• Are you rounding to 2 decimal places?

Fully worked solution: