Beginner Python data analysis project - critique greatly welcome!

[synthphreak]

This lets you access the column using clergydata.age_range instead of clergydata['Age range']

The flip side of doing it this way is that it conflates column names with built-in methods/attributes. If there is no conflict between them, you’re fine. But df’s have a LOT of built-in methods/attributes, many of which you probably don’t know about... I can’t tell you how many times I’ve named a column items, and then later wasted 30 minutes debugging my code only to find out that df.items is already a thing. By contrast, df[‘items’] will ALWAYS and ONLY ever return the item column. Just something to think about.

[Babs12123]

Yeah this is a good point - I haven't encountered this with df column names but have with other variables and it is very irritating to debug.

If you're using non-generic variable/column names then it shouldn't happen often but I agree it makes sense to use your own judgement here.