Data Wrangling in Python – How to Replace Values In pandas

Replacing Values In pandas

import modules


import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

Create dataframe

raw_data = {'first_name': ['Jason', 'Molly', 'Tina', 'Jake', 'Amy'], 
        'last_name': ['Miller', 'Jacobson', 'Ali', 'Milner', 'Cooze'], 
        'age': [42, 52, 36, 24, 73], 
        'preTestScore': [-999, -999, -999, 2, 1],
        'postTestScore': [2, 2, -999, 2, -999]}

df = pd.DataFrame(raw_data, columns = ['first_name', 'last_name', 'age', 'preTestScore', 'postTestScore'])
df
first_name last_name age preTestScore postTestScore
0 Jason Miller 42 -999 2
1 Molly Jacobson 52 -999 2
2 Tina Ali 36 -999 -999
3 Jake Milner 24 2 2
4 Amy Cooze 73 1 -999

Replace all values of -999 with NAN

df.replace(-999, np.nan)
first_name last_name age preTestScore postTestScore
0 Jason Miller 42 NaN 2.0
1 Molly Jacobson 52 NaN 2.0
2 Tina Ali 36 NaN NaN
3 Jake Milner 24 2.0 2.0
4 Amy Cooze 73 1.0 NaN

 

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