Exercise

Your First NumPy Array

In this chapter, we're going to dive into the world of baseball. Along the way, you'll get comfortable with the basics of numpy, a powerful package to do data science.

A list baseball has already been defined in the Python script, representing the height of some baseball players in centimeters. Can you add some code here and there to create a numpy array from it?

Instructions

100 XP

Import the numpy package as np, so that you can refer to numpy with np.
Use np.array() to create a numpy array from baseball. Name this array np_baseball.
Print out the type of np_baseball to check that you got it right.

Take Hint (-30 XP)