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
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)