loading of csv file to my notekbook and getting error

Question

please how do i load my csv file save on the desktop into my jupyter notebook cause i tried it the same way i saw the tutor did and i got error message

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data = pd.read_csv('1.01. Simple linear regression.csv')

Error message

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FileNotFoundError                         Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-8-0c537d0c5b39> in <module>
----> 1 data = pd.read_csv('1.01. Simple linear regression.csv')

~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py in parser_f(filepath_or_buffer, sep, delimiter, header, names, index_col, usecols, squeeze, prefix, mangle_dupe_cols, dtype, engine, converters, true_values, false_values, skipinitialspace, skiprows, skipfooter, nrows, na_values, keep_default_na, na_filter, verbose, skip_blank_lines, parse_dates, infer_datetime_format, keep_date_col, date_parser, dayfirst, cache_dates, iterator, chunksize, compression, thousands, decimal, lineterminator, quotechar, quoting, doublequote, escapechar, comment, encoding, dialect, error_bad_lines, warn_bad_lines, delim_whitespace, low_memory, memory_map, float_precision)
    674         )
    675 
--> 676         return _read(filepath_or_buffer, kwds)
    677 
    678     parser_f.__name__ = name

~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py in _read(filepath_or_buffer, kwds)
    446 
    447     # Create the parser.
--> 448     parser = TextFileReader(fp_or_buf, **kwds)
    449 
    450     if chunksize or iterator:

~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py in __init__(self, f, engine, **kwds)
    878             self.options["has_index_names"] = kwds["has_index_names"]
    879 
--> 880         self._make_engine(self.engine)
    881 
    882     def close(self):

~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py in _make_engine(self, engine)
   1112     def _make_engine(self, engine="c"):
   1113         if engine == "c":
-> 1114             self._engine = CParserWrapper(self.f, **self.options)
   1115         else:
   1116             if engine == "python":

~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py in __init__(self, src, **kwds)
   1889         kwds["usecols"] = self.usecols
   1890 
-> 1891         self._reader = parsers.TextReader(src, **kwds)
   1892         self.unnamed_cols = self._reader.unnamed_cols
   1893 

pandas\_libs\parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader.__cinit__()

pandas\_libs\parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._setup_parser_source()

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] File 1.01. Simple linear regression.csv does not exist: '1.01. Simple linear regression.csv'

Answer 1

Hi Oberewu,

Are you sure that the Jupyter notebook file and the dataset are in the same folder? Usually that's the easiest way to approach the issue.
However, if you still have a problem with that, then you can use the absolute path of a file when loading the data.

Thus, you can write: data = pd.read_csv(‘ABSOLUTE_PATH/1.01. Simple linear regression.csv’)

To me this looks like: data = pd.read_csv('C:/Users/365/Desktop/Advanced_Statistical_Methods_(Machine_Learning)/1.01. Simple linear regression.csv')

In your case, you can find that by opening the folder containing the files and copy-pasting the path.

Once you copy-paste this path, you should CHANGE ALL SLASHES from backward to forward.

This means that if your path is C:\Users\YOUR_COMPUTER_NAME\Desktop\... , you should make it look like: C:/Users/YOUR_COMPUTER_NAME/Desktop/…

Note that, due to the standards for referencing paths, in Python, instead of a backward slash ( \ ), you should use a forward slash ( / ).

Answer 2

...Just find the path of your file, and follow the directives given by the 365 Team, especially, remembering to change the backward slash (\) into forward slash(/), and it will be done...

loading of csv file to my notekbook and getting error

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