Make sure you correctly excluded object type variables in your second call of .describe()

Question

I am performing a topic in datacamp as follows:

Exploring Your Data Now you'll perform some data exploration using the Python pandas module. To get a sense of the data, you'll output statistics such as mean, median, count, and percentiles. The DataFrame recent_grads is still in your workspace

The objectives of the title hope are as follows:

Print the .dtypes of your data so that you know what each column contains.
Output basic summary statistics using a single pandas function.
With the same function from before, summary statistics for all columns that aren't of type object.

My code is as follows

# Print .dtypes
print(recent_grads.dtypes)
# Output summary statistics
print(recent_grads.describe())
# Exclude data of type object
print(recent_grads.describe(exclude='object'))

However, the error message that appears is as follows

Make sure you correctly excluded object type variables in your second call of .describe()

May I ask which part of the link is wrong, trouble assistance, thank you!

Answer 1

The parameter exclude of the describe() method requires a list-like of dtypes.

Please see the documentation: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.DataFrame.describe.html

So, in your case, the correct call would be recent_grads.describe(exclude=['object'])