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NameError: in the file directory I'm trying to load a data for analysis

I started to use Google Colab on Chrome on MacOSX and encountered the issue below.

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
#matplotlib inline

df = pd.read_csv(/Users/Shin/Box/PROJECTS/SOKENDAI/python_lesson/able_programing/titanic/'train.csv')
df.head

Then I get the error below. I am a beginner and not sure if the way I put file directory was wrong. I've tried "c:Users""~Users", that did not work. Thank you for your help.

NameError Traceback (most recent call last) in () ----> 1 df = pd.read_csv(~Users/Shin/Box/PROJECTS/SOKENDAI/python_lesson/able_programing/titanic/'train.csv') 2 df.head

NameError: name 'Users' is not defined

Solution

  • /Users/Shin/Box/PROJECTS/SOKENDAI/python_lesson/able_programing/titanic/train.csv needs to be a string. Python has no way of telling if that's a file path or not.

    import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
#matplotlib inline

df = pd.read_csv('/Users/Shin/Box/PROJECTS/SOKENDAI/python_lesson/able_programing/titanic/train.csv')
df.head