'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 "

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

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 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