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Data Wrangling With Python

Data Type Conversion

Explore how to determine and convert data types in pandas DataFrames. Understand integer, float, and string types and use Python libraries to ensure data columns have appropriate types for analysis.

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Introduction

When working with data, we need to consider data types for each column. Data types are classifications assigned to each column. We'll work with integer, float, and string data types in many data-related projects.

  • We assign an integer data type to columns with positive or negative whole numbers without decimal points.

  • We assign a float data type to columns with decimal point values.

  • We assign a string data type to columns with text values.

Let's say we're working with a dataset that contains the column, age. We first need to determine the column data type; if the data type isn't appropriate, we assign a suitable one.

In pandas, the int64, float64, and object ...