diff --git a/notebooks/responsibleaidashboard/vision/responsibleaidashboard-fridge-image-classification-model-debugging.ipynb b/notebooks/responsibleaidashboard/vision/responsibleaidashboard-fridge-image-classification-model-debugging.ipynb
index 78167c1cb2..8e879ab3aa 100644
--- a/notebooks/responsibleaidashboard/vision/responsibleaidashboard-fridge-image-classification-model-debugging.ipynb
+++ b/notebooks/responsibleaidashboard/vision/responsibleaidashboard-fridge-image-classification-model-debugging.ipynb
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@
     "from zipfile import ZipFile\n",
     "import numpy as np\n",
     "import pandas as pd\n",
-    "import datasets\n",
     "import matplotlib\n",
     "matplotlib.use('Agg')\n",
     "import matplotlib.pyplot as plt\n",
@@ -91,12 +90,18 @@
     "    # get all file names into a pandas dataframe with the labels\n",
     "    data = pd.DataFrame(columns=[ImageColumns.IMAGE.value,\n",
     "                                 ImageColumns.LABEL.value])\n",
+    "    \n",
+    "    feats = []\n",
     "    for folder in os.listdir(\"./data/fridgeObjects\"):\n",
     "        for file in os.listdir(\"./data/fridgeObjects/\" + folder):\n",
     "            image_path = \"./data/fridgeObjects/\" + folder + \"/\" + file\n",
-    "            data = data.append({ImageColumns.IMAGE.value: image_path,\n",
-    "                                ImageColumns.LABEL.value: folder},\n",
-    "                               ignore_index=True)\n",
+    "            feats.append({ImageColumns.IMAGE.value: image_path,\n",
+    "                     ImageColumns.LABEL.value: folder})\n",
+    "    \n",
+    "    # get all file names into a pandas dataframe with the labels\n",
+    "    data = pd.DataFrame(feats, columns=[ImageColumns.IMAGE.value,\n",
+    "                                        ImageColumns.LABEL.value])\n",
+    "\n",
     "    return data\n",
     "\n",
     "\n",
@@ -263,7 +268,7 @@
    "name": "python",
    "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
    "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
-   "version": "3.8.16"
+   "version": "3.9.18"
   },
   "orig_nbformat": 4,
   "vscode": {
diff --git a/notebooks/responsibleaidashboard/vision/responsibleaidashboard-fridge-multilabel-image-classification-model-debugging.ipynb b/notebooks/responsibleaidashboard/vision/responsibleaidashboard-fridge-multilabel-image-classification-model-debugging.ipynb
index 87e9eced64..eab8ff6c5f 100644
--- a/notebooks/responsibleaidashboard/vision/responsibleaidashboard-fridge-multilabel-image-classification-model-debugging.ipynb
+++ b/notebooks/responsibleaidashboard/vision/responsibleaidashboard-fridge-multilabel-image-classification-model-debugging.ipynb
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@
     "from zipfile import ZipFile\n",
     "import numpy as np\n",
     "import pandas as pd\n",
-    "import datasets\n",
     "import matplotlib\n",
     "matplotlib.use('Agg')\n",
     "import matplotlib.pyplot as plt\n",
@@ -397,7 +396,7 @@
    "name": "python",
    "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
    "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
-   "version": "3.8.16"
+   "version": "3.9.18"
   },
   "orig_nbformat": 4,
   "vscode": {