Exercise

Dictionary to DataFrame (1)

Pandas is an open source library, providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools for Python. Sounds promising!

The DataFrame is one of Pandas' most important data structures. It's basically a way to store tabular data where you can label the rows and the columns. One way to build a DataFrame is from a dictionary.

In the exercises that follow you will be working with vehicle data from different countries. Each observation corresponds to a country and the columns give information about the number of vehicles per capita, whether people drive left or right, and so on.

Three lists are defined in the script:

  • names, containing the country names for which data is available.
  • dr, a list with booleans that tells whether people drive left or right in the corresponding country.
  • cpc, the number of motor vehicles per 1000 people in the corresponding country.

Each dictionary key is a column label and each value is a list which contains the column elements.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Import pandas as pd.
  • Use the pre-defined lists to create a dictionary called my_dict. There should be three key value pairs:
    • key 'country' and value names.
    • key 'drives_right' and value dr.
    • key 'cars_per_cap' and value cpc.
  • Use pd.DataFrame() to turn your dict into a DataFrame called cars.
  • Print out cars and see how beautiful it is.