Plotting stop length
If you were stopped for a particular violation, how long might you expect to be detained?
In this exercise, you'll visualize the average length of time drivers are stopped for each type of violation. Rather than using the violation column in this exercise, you'll use violation_raw since it contains more detailed descriptions of the violations.
This exercise is part of the course
Analyzing Police Activity with pandas
Exercise instructions
- For each value in the
riDataFrame'sviolation_rawcolumn, calculate the mean number ofstop_minutesthat a driver is detained. - Save the resulting Series as a new object,
stop_length. - Sort
stop_lengthby its values, and then visualize it using a horizontal bar plot. - Display the plot.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Calculate the mean 'stop_minutes' for each value in 'violation_raw'
print(____)
# Save the resulting Series as 'stop_length'
stop_length = ____
# Sort 'stop_length' by its values and create a horizontal bar plot
stop_length.____
# Display the plot