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Exercise

Calculating a normalized metric

Now you are ready to divide the number of building permits issued for projects in each council district by the area of that district to get a normalized value for the permits issued. First you will verify that the districts_and_permits is still a GeoDataFrame.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Print the type() of districts_and_permits.
  • Add one more column to districts_and_permits. Use a lambda expression and the pandas apply() method to divide the number of building permits issued for projects in each council district by the area of that district to get a normalized value for the permits issued.
  • Print the first five rows of districts_and_permits.