Congratulations! You’ve finished all the exercises in this book. If you’ve gone through each one—and especially if you’ve gone through the “Beyond the exercise” questions—I’m sure you have improved your pandas skills a lot.
But before you go, I want to give you a final project. We’ll explore the “college scorecard,” a data set assembled by the US Department of Education about post-secondary (i.e., after high school) educational programs. The college scorecard allows us to see what programs schools offer, how many students they admit, what those students pay in tuition and fees, how many students graduate, and how much they can expect to earn after graduation. From looking at this data, we can better understand many different aspects of university education in the United States. I should add that with a data set this large and rich, there are many different questions that you could ask. After you finish answering the questions I pose here, I strongly suggest that you also explore the data set on your own, asking (and answering) questions that you think are interesting and relevant.