Cannot load the dataset as there is an error .
'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xfe in position 341: invalid start byte
The error is shown above , this stops the loan_data.csv file from loading . How to solve this , stackoverflow didnot have an apt answer .
"Course : Data preprocessing with Numpy , last section 2nd video "
Everyone has this error. Is this because of the improper data in the csv file or is it because of the delimiter?
I can see few places having double semi-colon in it.
Hi,
I do not have this issue myself, but others have reported that if you add an encoding parameter, it fixed the problem.
encoding = "unicode_escape"
or
encoding = "cp1252"
Either of those should work.
Best,
Nikola, 365 Team
Hi,
I have that problem and I solved it using the solution suggested by Nikala Pulev. The problem is fixed using encoding = "unicode_escape".
Thank you for the solution.
BR,
Sofiane
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