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Mastering Data Analysis with Python Pandas

Data Types of Columns

Explore how to identify and modify column data types in Pandas DataFrames. This lesson helps you understand why proper data type management is essential for efficient memory use and enables advanced data manipulation techniques in Python.

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Data types

Data doesn’t always come in plain numbers. In addition to integers and floats, we need to deal with strings (textual data), dates, times, and boolean (True and False) data types.

It’s important to use proper data types for two main reasons:

  • Data structures of different data types take up a different amount of memory space. Having ...