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Get data from a spreadsheet

In this exercise, you'll create a dataframe from a "base case" Excel file: one with a single sheet of tabular data. The fcc_survey.xlsx file here has a sample of responses from FreeCodeCamp's annual New Developer Survey. This survey asks participants about their demographics, education, work and home life, plus questions about how they're learning to code. Let's load all of it.

pandas has not been pre-loaded in this exercise, so you'll need to import it yourself before using read_excel() to load the spreadsheet.

This exercise is part of the course

Streamlined Data Ingestion with pandas

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Exercise instructions

  • Load the pandas library as pd.
  • Read in fcc_survey.xlsx and assign it to the variable survey_responses.
  • Print the first few records of survey_responses.

Hands-on interactive exercise

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

# Load pandas as pd
____

# Read spreadsheet and assign it to survey_responses
survey_responses = ____

# View the head of the dataframe
print(____)
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