Exercise

Measuring Support for U.S. Political Parties

As this is a new dataset for you, it is a good idea to start your analysis by looking at your data and familiarizing yourself with the relevant information. The code below will look familiar to a student who paid attention to the first exercise in lesson 1, but with a few additional steps missing. Check the hint if you need extra help!

Instructions

100 XP

Filter the election year to 2016 and select the Date, Democrats, and Republicans columns from the generic_ballot dataset.
Remember, the "generic ballot" is just another term for a poll that asks people if they'd support Democrats or Republicans in the upcoming elections, and the dataset has columns for both of those readings.

Take Hint (-30 XP)