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Choosing clusters

As a US counselor, you understand that humans are social beings and depend on each other. As part of a study you're conducting, you conduct a social relationship survey to explore how people manage their relationships as well as their mental health.

The dataset, mh_survey, includes the gender of the respondent, the US state they live in,US_state_live, and whether they have sought treatment for their mental health to sort through their different relationship dynamics, sought_treatment.

Pandas and numpy as been uploaded as pd and np.

This exercise is part of the course

Analyzing Survey Data in Python

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Exercise instructions

  • Create a list of the unique states present in the survey.
  • Randomly choose 10 clusters from the cluster of 47 states that our respondents live in, under column US_state_live.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Create a list of the unique states present in the survey
unique_states = ____(____(____))

# Randomly choose ten states
random_clusters = ____(unique_states, size = ____, replace = False)

print(random_clusters)
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