Error in Loading Seaborn Built In Data Sets in Google Colab Notebook

Question

In the past I have used the built in data sets in Seaborn in a Google Colab Notebook. I was able to access the data sets in a Colab notebook 1 week ago, but now I am no longer able to access them. I get an error message saying that it cannot find the data set that it was able to find using the exact same code a week ago. None of the datasets are working for me now.

I tried the code below

penguins = sns.load_dataset("penguins")

and I got the following error message

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-6-8424eff21d6f> in <cell line: 3>()
      1 #Reading in the dataset.
      2 #This is a famous dataset that comes preloaded as a part of seaborne graphing library
----> 3 penguins = sns.load_dataset("penguins")

/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/seaborn/utils.py in load_dataset(name, cache, data_home, **kws)
    585         if not os.path.exists(cache_path):
    586             if name not in get_dataset_names():
--> 587                 raise ValueError(f"'{name}' is not one of the example datasets.")
    588             urlretrieve(url, cache_path)
    589         full_path = cache_path

ValueError: 'penguins' is not one of the example datasets.

Answer 1

Yes, issue has been reported here: [https://github.com/googlecolab/colabtools/issues/4288] including its temporary workaround.

You can do the following:

!pip install seaborn==0.13.1
Runtime -> restart session

It should work.