Exercise

Creating a categorical pandas Series

Another colleague at work has collected information on the number of "Gold", "Silver", and "Bronze" medals won by the USA at the Summer & Winter Olympics since 1896. She has provided this as a list, medals_won. Before taking a look at the total number of each medal won, you want to create a categorical pandas Series. However, you know that these medals have a specific order to them and that Gold is better than Silver, but Silver is better than Bronze. Use the object, medals_won, to help.

Instructions

100 XP

Create a categorical pandas Series without using pd.Series().
Specify the three known medal categories such that "Bronze" < "Silver" < "Gold".
Specify that the order of the categories is important when creating this Series.