import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
%matplotlib inline

file = r'C:\Users\Anthony\Downloads\csvData.csv'
df = pd.read_csv(file)
df.head()

	year	value	GrowthRate
0	-10000	4000	NaN
1	-8000	5320	0.0001
2	-5000	22500	0.0005
3	-4000	46750	0.0007
4	-3000	14000	-0.0012

Part 01

We first plot the data

My goal was to plot the data and investigate any trends that I noticed

fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=[6,3], dpi=100)
ax.plot(df['year'], df['value'])
ax.set(xlabel='Year', ylabel='Population')
ax.minorticks_on()
ax.grid(which='major', axis='both', linestyle='-')
ax.grid(which='minor', axis='both', linestyle=':')
ax.set(yscale='log')
plt.title('Population History by Year')

Text(0.5, 1.0, 'Population History by Year')