Calculating the search rate
During a traffic stop, the police officer sometimes conducts a search of the vehicle. In this exercise, you'll calculate the percentage of all stops in the ri DataFrame that result in a vehicle search, also known as the search rate.
This exercise is part of the course
Analyzing Police Activity with pandas
Exercise instructions
- Check the data type of
search_conductedto confirm that it's a Boolean Series. - Calculate the search rate by counting the Series values and expressing them as proportions.
- Calculate the search rate by taking the mean of the Series. (It should match the proportion of
Truevalues calculated above.)
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Check the data type of 'search_conducted'
print(____)
# Calculate the search rate by counting the values
print(____)
# Calculate the search rate by taking the mean
print(____)