diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index ddd4fd0f9f4..526016d3bfd 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ Read the section on [building cuGraph from source](SOURCEBUILD.md) to validate t
 ```git remote add upstream https://github.com/rapidsai/cugraph.git```
 
 3. Checkout the latest branch
-cuGraph only allows contribution to the current branch and not main or a future branch.  Please check the [cuGraph](https://github.com/rapidsai/cugraph) page for the name of the current branch.  
+cuGraph only allows contribution to the current branch and not main or a future branch.  Please check the [cuGraph](https://github.com/rapidsai/cugraph) page for the name of the current branch.
 
 ```git checkout branch-x.x```
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c99f3c45a0f..7f173e0657d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ The [RAPIDS](https://rapids.ai) cuGraph library is a collection of GPU accelerat
 As an example, the following Python snippet loads graph data and computes PageRank:
 
 ```python
+import cudf
 import cugraph
 
 # read data into a cuDF DataFrame using read_csv