From the course: Data Analytics with Observable

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Challenge: Adding data to your notebook

Challenge: Adding data to your notebook - Observable Tutorial

From the course: Data Analytics with Observable

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Challenge: Adding data to your notebook

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(bright music) - [Instructor] Okay, it is time for you to play with some data in Observable. This time we're going to be working with the Central Park Squirrel Census dataset from the course exercise files. And this is exactly what it sounds like, a census of squirrels living in New York's Central Park. And it's actually pretty interesting. Your job is to load that data set into a notebook and using whatever means are easiest for you, try to do a bit of data manipulation and analysis. First, you don't need all the columns. We only need the unique squirrel ID, the age field, the various color fields, location, and all of these true/false columns throughout the rest of the dataset. You can get rid of all the other fields, but do it in Observable, not here in the CSV to work those skills. For this analysis, we also only care about adult squirrels, so you can filter out non-adults as well. Again, in Observable. Once you…

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