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Removing categories

Before adopting dogs, parents might want to know whether or not a new dog likes children. When looking at the adoptable dogs dataset, dogs, you notice that the frequency of responses for the categorical Series "likes_children" looks like this:

maybe     1718
yes       1172
no          47

The owner of the data wants to convert all "maybe" responses to "no", as it would be unsafe to let a family adapt a dog if it doesn't like children. The code to convert all "maybe" to "no" is provided in Step 1. However, the option for "maybe" still remains as a category.

This exercise is part of the course

Working with Categorical Data in Python

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Hands-on interactive exercise

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

# Set "maybe" to be "no"
dogs.loc[dogs["likes_children"] == "maybe", "likes_children"] = "no"

# Print out categories
print(____)
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