In this recipe, we are going to start our Python-based analysis of the automobile fuel efficiencies data.
The following steps will see you through setting up your working directory and IPython for the analysis for this chapter:
Create a project directory called
fuel_efficiency_python
.Download the automobile fuel efficiency dataset from http://fueleconomy.gov/feg/epadata/vehicles.csv.zip and store it in the preceding directory. Extract the
vehicles.csv
file from the zip file into the same directory.Open a terminal window and change the current directory (
cd
) to thefuel_efficiency_python
directory.At the terminal, type the following command:
ipython notebook
Once the new page has loaded in your web browser, click on New Notebook.
Click on the current name of the notebook, which is untitled0, and enter in a new name for this analysis...