diff --git a/notebooks/individual-dashboards/erroranalysis-dashboard/erroranalysis-interpretability-dashboard-census.ipynb b/notebooks/individual-dashboards/erroranalysis-dashboard/erroranalysis-interpretability-dashboard-census.ipynb
index 5fe858aa52..f32d83c7a9 100644
--- a/notebooks/individual-dashboards/erroranalysis-dashboard/erroranalysis-interpretability-dashboard-census.ipynb
+++ b/notebooks/individual-dashboards/erroranalysis-dashboard/erroranalysis-interpretability-dashboard-census.ipynb
@@ -98,8 +98,8 @@
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [],
    "source": [
-    "train_data = pd.read_csv('adult-train.csv')\n",
-    "test_data = pd.read_csv('adult-test.csv')"
+    "train_data = pd.read_csv('adult-train.csv', skipinitialspace=True)\n",
+    "test_data = pd.read_csv('adult-test.csv', skipinitialspace=True)"
    ]
   },
   {
diff --git a/notebooks/responsibleaidashboard/responsibleaidashboard-census-classification-model-debugging.ipynb b/notebooks/responsibleaidashboard/responsibleaidashboard-census-classification-model-debugging.ipynb
index 20c88878db..694763d100 100644
--- a/notebooks/responsibleaidashboard/responsibleaidashboard-census-classification-model-debugging.ipynb
+++ b/notebooks/responsibleaidashboard/responsibleaidashboard-census-classification-model-debugging.ipynb
@@ -141,8 +141,8 @@
     "                        'occupation', 'relationship', 'race', 'gender', 'native-country']\n",
     "\n",
     "\n",
-    "train_data = pd.read_csv('adult-train.csv')\n",
-    "test_data = pd.read_csv('adult-test.csv')\n",
+    "train_data = pd.read_csv('adult-train.csv', skipinitialspace=True)\n",
+    "test_data = pd.read_csv('adult-test.csv', skipinitialspace=True)\n",
     "\n",
     "X_train_original, y_train = split_label(train_data, target_feature)\n",
     "X_test_original, y_test = split_label(test_data, target_feature)\n",