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Question

I am trying to read in a dataset called df1, but it does not work

import pandas as pd
df1=pd.read_csv(\"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tuyenhavan/Statist         


        

Answer 1

It turned out that the csv created in mac os is being parsed on a windows machine, I got the UnicodeDecodeError. To get rid of this error, try passing argument encoding='mac-roman' to read_csv method of pandas library.

import pandas as pd
df1=pd.read_csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tuyenhavan/Statistics/Dataset/World_Life_Expectancy.csv",sep=";", encoding='mac_roman')
df1.head()

Output:

    2000    2001    2002    2003    2004    2005    2006    2007    2008    2009    2010    2011    2012    2013    Unnamed: 15 2014    2015
0   Afghanistan 55.1    55.5    55.9    56.2    56.6    57.0    57.4    57.8    58.2    58.6    59.0    59.3    59.7    60.0    NaN 60.4    60.7
1   Albania 74.3    74.7    75.2    75.5    75.8    76.1    76.3    76.5    76.7    76.8    77.0    77.2    77.4    77.6    NaN 77.8    78.0
2   Algeria 70.2    70.6    71.0    71.4    71.8    72.2    72.6    72.9    73.2    73.5    73.8    74.1    74.3    74.6    NaN 74.8    75.0
3   American Samoa  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  NaN ..  ..
4   Andorra ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  NaN ..  ..