Robert Hirsch
1 min readMar 9, 2019

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I cant seem to get past this error:

UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf-8’ codec can’t decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte

seems to happen on the pd.read_csv line. there is a bunch of other gobbelygook abouve it like:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File “/var/folders/pd/_w3jlq7s3zs1xz96hb_jpz5h0000gn/T/pythonInTerm.QvOgWFwK”, line 6, in <module>

data = pd.read_csv(“Volcanoes_USA.txt”)

File “/Users/shandor/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers.py”, line 678, in parser_f

return _read(filepath_or_buffer, kwds)

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Robert Hirsch
Robert Hirsch

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Author, Maker, Father, Dreamer. Robert received his Ph.D. from RPI in Mechatronics. Since then, consumer devices, renewable energy, and now blockchain.

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