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Data Analysis Cleaning and Preparing Data “Clean” and “Dirty” Data Exploring Your Dataset

Posted by Joe Li
Joe Li
3,234 Points

Can't read in CSV files after importing the pandas library

I'm using JupyterLab via Anaconda when I try to run this, I get an error saying that Demographics.csv does not exist.

import pandas as pd
demo = pd.read_csv('Demographics.csv')

How do I fix this?

1 Answer

Michael Erotokritou
Michael Erotokritou
2,399 Points
Michael Erotokritou
Michael Erotokritou
2,399 Points

You need to make sure you're starting up your Python environment in the same folder as the data files. When you open Jupyter Notebook, use the ls, cd, cd.., pwd commands to move through your computers directories (files) until you end up wherever you saved the teachers data. When you are there, the read_csv will work.