Seaborn load_dataset

load_dataset looks for online csv files on https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn-data. Here’s the docstring:

Load a dataset from the online repository (requires internet).

Parameters


name : str
Name of the dataset (name.csv on
https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn-data). You can obtain list of
available datasets using :func:get_dataset_names

kws : dict, optional
Passed to pandas.read_csv

If you want to modify that online dataset or bring in your own data, you likely have to use pandas. load_dataset actually returns a pandas DataFrame object, which you can confirm with type(tips).

If you already created your own data in a csv file called, say, tips2.csv, and saved it in the same location as your script, use this (after installing pandas) to load it in:

import pandas as pd

tips2 = pd.read_csv('tips2.csv')

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