1. Introduction to Jupyter Notebooks

Activity 1.01: Using Jupyter to Learn about pandas DataFrames

Solution:

1. Start one of the following platforms to run Jupyter Notebooks:

   Jupyter Notebook (run jupyter notebook)

   JupyterLab (run jupyter lab)

   Then, open the platform in your web browser by copying and pasting the URL, as prompted in the Terminal.

2. Load the numpy library as follows:

   import numpy as np

3. Import pandas, as follows:

   import pandas as pd

4. Pull up the docstring for the pandas DataFrame object, as follows:

   pd.DataFrame?

   The output is as follows:

   Figure 1:39: The docstring for pd.DataFrame

5. Use a dictionary to create a DataFrame with fruit and score columns, as follows:

   fruit_scores = {'fruit': ['apple', 'orange', \
                             'banana', 'blueberry'], \
      ...