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Data Analysis and Visualization in Python for Ecologists

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TrungNg opened this issue · comments

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  • pandas.read_csv is mostly used and could be introduced more with its options, e.g. index_col and header. An option of "index_col=0" could be useful here.
    If space is a problem, the part of (first) reading and then assigning the read data frame to a variable can be combined into one cell:

surveys_df = pd.read_csv("data/surveys.csv")
surveys_df

  • The output of the first read_csv looks like the index was described but not shown on the Output (probably on purpose). This may be confusing to readers.

Thanks!

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@TrungNg Thanks for your feedback. I think we want to keep the introduction of read_csv as simple as possible to minimize the new concepts a reader has to understand.