Instruction
Great. After loading the data, the first thing you want to do is take a peek at the data. We can use the head() or tail() functions to quickly see the first/last five rows of our DataFrame.
hospitals.head()
Mind the syntax. We put the variable name hospitals, followed by a dot (.) and the pandas function head(). The dot syntax means that we want to execute the head() function on the variable named hospitals.
The code above will show the following:
| Hospital Name | City | State | Phone Number | Hospital overall rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Abbeville Area Medical Center | Abbeville | SC | 8643665011 | 4 |
| 1 | Abbeville General Hospital | Abbeville | LA | 3378935466 | 3 |
| 2 | Avera St Lukes | Aberdeen | SD | 6056225000 | 5 |
| 3 | Sanford Aberdeen Medical Center | Aberdeen | SD | 6056264200 | 4 |
| 4 | Grays Harbor Community Hospital | Aberdeen | WA | 3605328330 | 2 |
The data appear to be correct. Note that the first column contains consecutive numbers, but does not have a name. It's called a sequential index. pandas has created it for us automatically.
Exercise
Now that you have the CSV file loaded into eu_states, show the last five rows from this DataFrame.
Again, you can see the automatic sequential index that pandas created for us. All data seem correct.
Stuck? Here's a hint!
Simply add:
eu_states.tail()
