title: How to read CSV file into Jupyter Notebook
body: <p>I have been having issues reading a CSV file into Jupyter Notebook. this is the code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import pandas as pd
  mpg = pd.read_csv('C:/Users/Ajibola/Documents/mpg.csv')
  mpg.head()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And this is the error I got:</p>
  
  <pre><code>File "&lt;ipython-input-138-844bace16611&gt;", line 1
      mpg = pd.read_csv('C:\Users\Ajibola\Documents\mpg.csv')
                       ^
  SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape
  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And after prefixing the PATH with r, I got the error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  UnicodeDecodeError                        Traceback (most recent call last)
  &lt;ipython-input-140-a1289650ba91&gt; in &lt;module&gt;
  ----&gt; 1 mpg = pd.read_csv(r'C:\Users\Ajibola\Documents\mpg.csv')
        2 mpg.head()
  
  ~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py in parser_f(filepath_or_buffer, sep, delimiter, header, names, index_col, usecols, squeeze, prefix, mangle_dupe_cols, dtype, engine, converters, true_values, false_values, skipinitialspace, skiprows, skipfooter, nrows, na_values, keep_default_na, na_filter, verbose, skip_blank_lines, parse_dates, infer_datetime_format, keep_date_col, date_parser, dayfirst, iterator, chunksize, compression, thousands, decimal, lineterminator, quotechar, quoting, doublequote, escapechar, comment, encoding, dialect, tupleize_cols, error_bad_lines, warn_bad_lines, delim_whitespace, low_memory, memory_map, float_precision)
      700                     skip_blank_lines=skip_blank_lines)
      701 
  --&gt; 702         return _read(filepath_or_buffer, kwds)
      703 
      704     parser_f.__name__ = name
  
  ~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py in _read(filepath_or_buffer, kwds)
      427 
      428     # Create the parser.
  --&gt; 429     parser = TextFileReader(filepath_or_buffer, **kwds)
      430 
      431     if chunksize or iterator:
  
  ~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py in __init__(self, f, engine, **kwds)
      893             self.options['has_index_names'] = kwds['has_index_names']
      894 
  --&gt; 895         self._make_engine(self.engine)
      896 
      897     def close(self):
  
  ~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py in _make_engine(self, engine)
     1120     def _make_engine(self, engine='c'):
     1121         if engine == 'c':
  -&gt; 1122             self._engine = CParserWrapper(self.f, **self.options)
     1123         else:
     1124             if engine == 'python':
  
  ~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py in __init__(self, src, **kwds)
     1851         kwds['usecols'] = self.usecols
     1852 
  -&gt; 1853         self._reader = parsers.TextReader(src, **kwds)
     1854         self.unnamed_cols = self._reader.unnamed_cols
     1855 
  
  pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader.__cinit__()
  
  pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._get_header()
  
  UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode bytes in position 0-1: invalid continuation byte
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've run through the community for related problems and answers but making no headway. An answer would be really appreciated.</p>