Analyzing Categorical Data from the General Social Survey in Python

Apr 2023

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The General Social Survey (GSS) is one of the most important monitors of American societial attitudes and behaviors ove the last 50 years. The data is also chock-full of categorical variables to analyze!

In this session you'll analyze a subset of the GSS, exploring American culture and honing your categorical data analysis skills.

What will I learn?

How to create and update the categorical data type in pandas.
How to manipulate and aggregate categorical data..
How to visualize categorical data.

Topics

Data Analysis

Python

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