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
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(____)