Chapter 2: Looking for Correlations - ValueError: could not convert string to float: 'INLAND'

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Chapter 2: Looking for Correlations - ValueError: could not convert string to float: 'INLAND' #680

Closed SybilRamkin closed 1 year ago

SybilRamkin commented 1 year ago

Hi there,

First of all thanks for the great book. I enjoy learning with the hands-on examples! When calling the correlation method an error is thrown. Supposedly because the ocean proximity contains strings and not numbers. How can I fix the error and get the correlation matrix?

Thanks in advance!

hands_on

SybilRamkin commented 1 year ago

dropped the ocean_proximity column

housing.drop(housing.columns[[9]], axis=1, inplace=True)