Removing titles and taking names

While collecting survey respondent metadata in the airlines DataFrame, the full name of respondents was saved in the full_name column. However upon closer inspection, you found that a lot of the different names are prefixed by honorifics such as "Dr.", "Mr.", "Ms." and "Miss".

Your ultimate objective is to create two new columns named first_name and last_name, containing the first and last names of respondents respectively. Before doing so however, you need to remove honorifics.

The airlines DataFrame is in your environment, alongside pandas as pd.

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Cleaning Data in Python

Exercise instructions

Remove "Dr.", "Mr.", "Miss" and "Ms." from full_name by replacing them with an empty string "" in that order.
Run the assert statement using .str.contains() that tests whether full_name still contains any of the honorifics.

Hands-on interactive exercise

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

# Replace "Dr." with empty string ""
airlines['full_name'] = airlines['full_name'].____.____("____","")

# Replace "Mr." with empty string ""
airlines['full_name'] = ____

# Replace "Miss" with empty string ""
____

# Replace "Ms." with empty string ""
____

# Assert that full_name has no honorifics
assert airlines['full_name'].str.contains('Ms.|Mr.|Miss|Dr.').any() == False

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