Generating summary statistics for the entire dataset

One of the first steps that business intelligence professionals perform on a new dataset is creating summary statistics. These statistics can be generated for an entire dataset or a part of it. In this recipe, you'll learn how to create summary statistics for the entire dataset.

How to do it…

  1. To generate summary statistics for the entire dataset, begin by importing the libraries that you need:
    import pandas as pd
  2. Next, import the dataset from the CSV file:
    accidents_data_file = '/Users/robertdempsey/Dropbox/private/Python Business Intelligence Cookbook/Data/Stats19-Data1979-2004/Accidents7904.csv' accidents = pd.read_csv(accidents_data_file, sep=',', header=0, index_col=False, parse_dates=['Date'], ...

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