Read data into pandas
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Provide column names while reading a dataset in pandas
# Import the required modules
import pandas as pd
Reading the dataset using read.csv() function with mentioning column names in names parameters.
#Fetching data from url as csv by mentioning values of various paramters
data = pd.read_csv("https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/iris/iris.data",
header = None,
index_col = False,
names = ['sepal_length','sepal_width','petal_length','petal_width','iris_class'])
Returing the first 10 rows of the dataset using head() function
# Displaying the first ten rows of the data
data.head(n=10)
| sepal_length | sepal_width | petal_length | petal_width | irsi_class | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 5.1 | 3.5 | 1.4 | 0.2 | Iris-setosa |
| 1 | 4.9 | 3.0 | 1.4 | 0.2 | Iris-setosa |
| 2 | 4.7 | 3.2 | 1.3 | 0.2 | Iris-setosa |
| 3 | 4.6 | 3.1 | 1.5 | 0.2 | Iris-setosa |
| 4 | 5.0 | 3.6 | 1.4 | 0.2 | Iris-setosa |