Why is df.head() not working in python

Question

Hi there everyone I am working on a project with python which needs data frames so I am using pandas but there seem to be a problem to when ever I go and type in print(data.head()) AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'head' below is the rest of my code any help will be awesome.

import quandl
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

data = quandl.get_table('WIKI/PRICES')
print(data.head())

Solution

You need to change the list to a pandas DataFrame first. After that you will be able to do data.head(). Something like:

df = pd.DataFrame(my_list)

Comments

[Zero]

What is type(data)? probably not a dataframe, looks like a list. print data and check for contents.

[Andrey Lukyanenko]

I suppose that you need to convert data into df: data = pd.DataFrame(data)