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This cheat sheet provides methods for data wrangling in Python, including techniques for replacing missing values with the mode or mean, fixing data types, normalizing data, binning for analysis, changing column names, and creating indicator variables for categorical data. Each method is accompanied by a brief description and a code example. The document serves as a quick reference for data manipulation tasks using Python's pandas library.

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This cheat sheet provides methods for data wrangling in Python, including techniques for replacing missing values with the mode or mean, fixing data types, normalizing data, binning for analysis, changing column names, and creating indicator variables for categorical data. Each method is accompanied by a brief description and a code example. The document serves as a quick reference for data manipulation tasks using Python's pandas library.

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Data Analysis with Python


Cheat Sheet: Data Wrangling
Package/Method Description Code Example
MostFrequentEntry = df['attribute_name'].value_counts().idxmax()
df['attribute_name'].replace(np.nan,MostFrequentEntry,inplace=True)

Replace the missing values of the


Replace missing data data set attribute with the mode
with frequency common occurring entry in the
column.

AverageValue=df['attribute_name'].astype(<data_type>).mean(axis=0)
df['attribute_name'].replace(np.nan, AverageValue, inplace=True)

Replace the missing values of the


Replace missing data
data set attribute with the mean of all
with mean
the entries in the column.

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df[['attribute1_name', 'attribute2_name', ...]] =


df[['attribute1_name', 'attribute2_name', ...]].astype('data_type')
#data_type is int, float, char, etc.

Fix the data types of the columns in


Fix the data types
the dataframe.

df['attribute_name'] =
df['attribute_name']/df['attribute_name'].max()

Normalize the data in a column such


Data Normalization that the values are restricted between
0 and 1.

bins = np.linspace(min(df['attribute_name']),
max(df['attribute_name'],n)
# n is the number of bins needed
GroupNames = ['Group1','Group2','Group3,...]
df['binned_attribute_name'] =
pd.cut(df['attribute_name'], bins, labels=GroupNames, include_lowest=True)

Create bins of data for better analysis


Binning
and visualization.

Change column name Change the label name of a df.rename(columns={'old_name':\'new_name'}, inplace=True)


dataframe column.

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dummy_variable = pd.get_dummies(df['attribute_name'])
df = pd.concat([df, dummy_variable],axis = 1)

Create indicator variables for


Indicator Variables
categorical data.

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