Python Pandas - Udemy

Question 1

What are Variables?

Answer 1

Placeholders

Question 2

Are the terms list and array the same in python?

Answer 2

True! Yes!

Question 3

What does len(df) return?

Answer 3

The number of elements in the list or array

Question 4

What is a Dictionary?

Answer 4

A data type that stores keys and corresponding values.

A dictionary is represented by { }

Question 5

What is a Series?

Answer 5

A series is a one dimensional labeled array

Question 6

How do you convert a list to a series object?

Answer 6

pd.Series(list)

Question 7

What is the difference between a list and series?

Answer 7

The index of a list can be only numeriv values and the index of a series can be abything you like it to be.

Question 8

what does series.values give us?

Answer 8

All the values in the series as an array

Question 9

What does series. index give us?

Answer 9

The index of the series

Question 10

What do the

series. sum()
series. product()
series. mean()

return?

Answer 10

the

sum

product

mean

of the series

Question 11

What does pd.read_csv(usecols=’abc’, squeeze=True) do?

Answer 11

It selects a single column ‘abc’ from a dataframe and converts it into a series.

Question 12

What does x=df.head() or df.tail() do?

Answer 12

head() or tail() methods actually create a new series from the original dataframe so the variable ‘X’ will contain the new series

Question 13

what does dir(s) do? ( where ‘s’ is a series)

Answer 13

gives you a list of attributes and methods available with that series.

Question 14

what does sort ( series ) do?

Answer 14

sort all the values in the series in ascending order

Question 15

what does

list(series)

dict(series)

do?

Answer 15

list(series) turns the series into a list

dict(series) turns the series into a dictionary

Question 16

what does

series.is_unique

do?

Answer 16

returns True or False to show if all values in the series are unique

Question 17

What does

series.sort_values do?

Answer 17

sorts the series in ascending order and returns a brand new series. You can also run it’s own methods on the newly returned series

eg. series.sort_values().head() will return the top 5 values of the newly created series.

Question 18

What does the inplace=True parameter do?

Answer 18

makes changes to the series in place

Question 19

What does the statement:

‘abc’ in series do?

Answer 19

returns a boolean value by checking for ‘abc’ in the index of the series. If you want to check for ‘abc’ in the values of the series you must use:

‘abc’ in series.values

Question 20

what does

series[-30 : - 10]

return?

Answer 20

returns all the values from the -30 to the -10 position.

Question 21

What is the difference between

len(series) and series.count() ?

Answer 21

len(series) returns the length of the series including the rows having nan values.

series.count() only returns a count of the rows that have values and excludes rows that have NANs

Question 22

Good to rememember:

What are some of the mathematical functions available with series?

Answer 22

series. sum()
series. mean()
series. std()
series. median()
series. describe()

Question 23

What does

series. idxmax()
series. idxmin()

retuen?

Answer 23

returns the index of the position that holds the min and max values in the series.

Nice way of using this is:

series[series.idxmax()]

will return the same value as

series.max()

Question 24

What does the

series.values_counts()

do?

Answer 24

returns the number of times all the unique values occur.

series.value_counts().sum()

will retutn the lenght of the string same as len(series).

Good to remember the value_counts() has the ascending=True/False parameter

Question 25

What does series.apply()

do?

Answer 25

series.apply() accepts a function as a parameter and then applies that function to all the values in the series.

eg:

series.apply( lambda stockprice : stockprice + 1)

Question 26

What does the

series.map()

do?

Answer 26

performs a v lookup type function on 2 seperate series.

I need to explore this further

Question 27

True or False:

The index labels in a panda Series must be unique

Answer 27

False

Question 28

What are pandas DataFrames?

Answer 28

DataFrames are 2 dimensional array. What does 2 dimensions mean : it means you need 2 pieces of info. to access a particular value i.e row and column #

Question 29

A csv file contains integer values but when you read it into a dataframe it shows up as a float….When?

Answer 29

If some of the values in the columns are NANs pandas DataFrames converts the entire column into Floats…reason not yet known

Question 30

What does

df.info()

return?

Answer 30

Basic info about the dataframe as well as the number of non null values in each column.

Question 31

What does

df.axes()

return?

Answer 31

returns the combined result of

df.index() and df.columns

Question 32

df.sum(axis=1)

or

df.sum(axis=”columns”)

return the horizontal left to right total of a dataframe

Answer 32

what does

df.sum(axis=1)

return?

Question 33

How to extract a single column ‘abc’ from a Dataframe df?

Answer 33

df [“abc”]

this command returns a series

Question 34

How do you extract multiple columns from a DataFrame?

Answer 34

df [[“abc”,”def”] ]

or

select = [“abc”,”def”]

df [select]

both the above return the same resulting DataFrame

Question 35

How do you insert a new column ‘Sport’ in a Dataframe?

Answer 35

df [“Sport”] = “ Basket Ball”

inserts the column Sport at the end of the DataFrame and populates all rows with the value ‘Basket Ball’

df.insert( 5, column = “Sport”, value= “Basket Ball”)

this inserts the ‘Sport’ column in the 5’th position with the value ‘Basket Ball’ in all rows

Question 36

How do you add 20 to every value in the column ‘Salary’ of a dataframe?

Answer 36

df [“Salary”].add(20)

or

df [“Salary”] + 20

These are called Broadcast methods and can be used with all the other mathematical functions as well.

Question 37

How do you use value_counts() with a DataFrame?

Answer 37

df [“abc”].value_counts().head().

Imp: value_counts() can only be used on series objects

Question 38

How do you remove rows with null values in a DataFrame?

Answer 38

df.dropna()

by default this method will remove all rows even with a single nan value in the columns

Question 39

How do you remove a row from a DataFrame only when a particular column has a Nan value?

Answer 39

df.dropna( subset= [“column name”, “column name 2”] )

Question 40

How do you replace a nan value with a particular value in a column of a DataFrame?

Answer 40

df [” abc”].fillna( “Hello”, inplace=True)

This will fill all NaN values in the ‘abc’ column with the string “Hello”

Question 41

How do your convert the ‘Salary’ column from float to intiger in a DataFrame?

Answer 41

df [“Salary”] .astype (“int”)

• Must remember that all NaNs must be removed or replaced for this method to work
  
  • There is no inplace parameter so you must assign value to a variable for the change to be permanent

Question 42

How do you sort a dataframe?

Answer 42

An entire DataFrame can be sorted only by a particular column.

df.sort_values(“Salary”)

If the column has NaN values they will be at the end of the dataframe or will occupy the last position.

Question 43

How do you do a sort on multiple columns in a dataframe?

Answer 43

df.sort_values( [” col 1” , “ col 2”], ascending = [True , False] )

This sorts the dataframe first based on col 1 and then col 2. Col 1 in ascending order and col 2 in descending order

Question 44

How do you convert a string to a Date type?

Answer 44

df [“String_Date”] = pd.to_datetime (df [“String_Date”])

Question 45

How do you convert a string type to a category type?

Answer 45

df[” Management”] = df [” Management”].astype(“Category”)

Question 46

How do you filter a datframe so that only the columns where gender = ‘Male’ is returned as a dataframe?

Answer 46

df [df [“Gender”] == “ Male”]

or

filter = df [” Gender”] = “ Male”

df [filter]

Question 47

How to filter a dataframe using more than one condition eg

Gender = Male

Team = Marketing

?

Answer 47

filter 1 = df [” Gender”] == ‘ Male’

filter 2 = df [” Team”] == ‘ Marketing’

df [filter 1 & filter 2]

Question 48

Write code to filter a dataframe where Team = ‘ Legal’, ‘Marketing’ or ‘Sales’

Answer 48

filter = df [” Team “].isin( [” Legal” , “ Sales”, “ Marketing “] )

df [filter]

You can also pass a series into the isin() method

eg. df [” Team”].isin ( df2 [” Team”] )

Question 49

What do the isnull() and notnull() methods do?

Answer 49

isnull() returns True if a given column is a NaN else False.

notnull() returns True if a given column is not a Nan else False.

Question 50

Write code to filter Salary >= 60,000 and <= 70,000?

Answer 50

df [” Salary”].between( 60000, 70000)

or

x= df [” Salary”] > = 60000

y= df [” Salary”] < = 70000

df [x & y]

Question 51

What does the ~ symbol do?

Answer 51

It returns the reverse of a Boolean value.

i.e. True becomes False

False becomes True

Question 52

What does df [” Name”].duplicated( ) return?

Answer 52

Returns the boolean value True for all duplicate values of the Name column except for the first occurance which returns False.

If the are 4 Toms it will returns 1 False and 3 Trues

Question 53

Remove duplicate valued from dataframe where Name and Team are duplicates

Answer 53

df.drop_duplicates (subset= [” Name”, “ Team”],keep=False,inplace=True)

Question 54

What do the unique( ) and nunique ( ) do?

Answer 54

unique () returns an array of unique values that will also count NaN as unique.

nunique( ) will return an inter of the count of unique values. This will not count the NaN as the parameter dropna=True is set by default

Question 55

How do you set a particular column as the index of a dataframe?

Answer 55

df.set_index( “Col_name”)

to reverse change

df.reset_index()

Question 56

What does the df.loc[] method do?

Answer 56

extract rows using index labels

Question 57

Extract rows from a dataframe between index 18 and 35?

Answer 57

df.iloc [18 : 36]

note index 36 will not be returned in iloc[]

Question 58

What is the df.ix[] method ?

Answer 58

It is a combination of the iloc[] and the loc[] methods. It accepts both string labels as well as integer indexes as arguments.

Note :

When using labels in ix[] and you specify a range or a list and one of the labels does not exist in the dataframe python returns a NaN value for the missing label.

BUT

When using index values in ix[] and you specify a range or a list and one of the indeces does not exist in the dataframe python returns an error value for the entire query.

Question 59

How do you write a value to a given row and column in a dataframe using the ix[]?

Answer 59

df.ix[“James”, “Salary”] = 80000

This changes the James row and Salary column to 80000

Question 60

filter = df [” Team”] == “Marketing”

df.ix [filter, “Team”] = “ Online Marketing”

What does this piece of code do?

Answer 60

Finds all instances where Team = Marketing and then replaces ‘ Marketing’ with ‘ Online Marketing’ in the dataframe

Question 61

How do you change the name of columns in a dataframe?

Answer 61

df.rename ( { “ Team”:”Dept”, “ Salary”: “ Compensation”}, inplace=True)

The rename ( ) accepts a dictionary as a parameter.

Question 62

What are the 3 methods to delete columns from a dataframe?

Answer 62

df.drop( “ Team”,inplace=True)

or

df.pop( “Team”)

This method removes “Team” from the dataframe and returns the column team as a series.

or

del df.Team

Question 63

How do you extract 5 random rows from your dataset? Also how do you extract 25% of your data set randomly?

Answer 63

df.sample( n=5)

and

df.sample(frac =.25)

Question 64

How to find the 5 highest values in the ‘Revenue’ column without using sort method?

Answer 64

df.nlargest(5,”Revenue”)

or

df [“Revenue”].nlargest(5)

The same syntax cane be used for the nsamllest() as well

Question 65

How do you use the string methods on a column of a dataframe?

Answer 65

all methods must be prefixed with the .str. name

eg

df [” Name”].str.len()

df [” Name”].str.upper()

df [” Name”].str.lower()

df [” Name”].str.title()

Question 66

Write code to replace ‘Mkt’ with ‘Marketing’ in the ‘Team’ Column?

Answer 66

df [“Team”] = df [“Team”].str.replace( “ Mkt”, “ Marketing”)

Question 67

What do the following methods do?

1. str.contains()
2. str.startswith()
3. str.endswith()

Answer 67

df [“Name”].str.lower().str.contains(“john”)

returns all rows where Name contains ‘john’ irrespective of the position

df [“Name”].str.lower().str.startswith(“john”)

returns all rows where Name begins with ‘john’

df [“Name”].str.lower().str.endsswith(“john”)

returns all rows where Name endss with ‘john’

Question 68

What does

.str.strip()

.str.lstrip()

.str.rstrip()

do?

Answer 68

Removes spaces from left and right,left and right of a string

Question 69

Give an example each of using the string methods on the index and columns of a dataframe?

Answer 69

String methods are called in the same way on the index and columns as well.

eg.

df.index.str.upper()

and

df.columns.str.upper()

Question 70

How do you extract the last name from the ‘ Name’ column that has both last name and first name and is seperated by a space?

Answer 70

df [“Name”].str.split(“, “).str.get(0).value_counts().head()

Question 71

Write code to extract the first name from the ‘Name’ column of a dataframe?

Answer 71

df[“Name”].str.split(“,”).str.get(1).str.strip().str.split(“ “).str.get(0).value_counts().head(10)

Question 72

Good to remember about the str.split( )

Answer 72

the str.split( expand = True,n=2 )

has a parameter expand when set to True returns a dataframe

n determines the number of splits

Question 73

How do you convert a series into a list and a dataframe?

Answer 73

x=df[“NM”].tolist()
y=df[“NM”].to_frame()

Question 74

How do you export a dataframe to a csv file?

Answer 74

df.to_csv(“Tial and Error”,index=False,Columns=[“BRTH_YR”,”NM”])

index=False does not copy the index

Columns=[] allows you to copy only certain columns if you so desire

Question 75

How do you read an excel file with multiple worksheets?

Answer 75

df= pd.read_excel(‘C:/Users/SHAWN/Desktop/Python Pandas/Data - Multiple Worksheets.xlsx’,sheetname=None).

The resulting output will be a dictionary.

Question 76

How do you set multiple indexes to a dataframe?

Answer 76

df.set_index( [“Date”,”Country”],inplace=True)

OR

You can do it directly while importing the csv file like this

df= pd.read_csv(‘C:/Users/SHAWN/Desktop/bigmac.csv’,index_col= [“Date”, “Country”] )

Question 77

How do you access the values in a multi index dataframe?

Answer 77

df.index.get_level_values(0)

or

df.index.get_level_values(“Date”)

Question 78

How do you change the name of an index in an multi level dataframe?

Answer 78

df.index.set_index( [“Day”, “Location”] )

Tip:

Assume you want the first index to stay the same but change the second level,then just pass the same index name in the arguments.

Question 79

How to extract a row from a multi index dataframe?

Answer 79

df.loc [( “ 2016-10-10”, “ China)]

for a multi index the .loc [] accepts a tupule as an argument

Question 80

How do you interchange the rows and columns in a dataframe?

Answer 80

df.transpose()

Question 81

How do you swap the index levels in a multi index dataframe?

Answer 81

df.swaplevel()

Question 82

What do the stack() and unstack() methods?

Answer 82

stack() takes the columns and stacks the columns as rows.

unstack()

unstacks the rows and makes them columns

Question 83

How do you use the groupby () on a dataframe and group by department?

Answer 83

Group=df.groupby( “Dept.”)

The groupby () creates a separate groupby object. Groupby by itself is meaning less until you call methods on it.

Question 84

How do you find out the number of dataframes in a group called G1?

Answer 84

len(G1)

Question 85

How do you find the number of rows within each group in G1?

Answer 85

g1.size()

Question 86

What does the following command return G1.groups where G1 is a group dataframe?

Answer 86

It returns the index value of all of the rows that fall within each group

Question 87

How do you extract all the rows from the ‘Marketing’ department?

Answer 87

G1= df.groupby(“Dept”)

G1.get_group(“Marketing”)

Question 88

What do the following methods do where ‘sectors’ is the group object?

sectors[“Revenue”].sum()

sectors[“Profits”].max()

sectors[“Profits”].min()

sectors[“Employees”].mean()

sectors[[“Revenue”, “Profits”]].sum()

Answer 88

• Returns sum of ‘Revenue’ column for N groups present in sectors
• Returns Max of ‘Profits’ column for N groups present in sectors
• Returns Min of ‘Profits’ column for N groups present in sectors
• Returns average no of ‘Employees’ column for N groups present in sectors
  
  • This is how you choose more than one column and return their sum.

Question 89

How do you group by multiple columns?

Answer 89

sectors = df.groupby([“Sector”, “Industry”])

Question 90

What are the 2 ways to use the .agg() with the groupby object?

sectors.agg([“size”, “sum”, “mean”])

Answer 90

There are 2 ways to use the .agg() by :

• Passing a dictionary as a parameter
• Passing a list as a parameter

sectors.agg ({“Revenue” : [“sum”, “mean”],

“Profits” : “sum”,

“Employees” : “mean”})

and

sectors.agg([“size”, “sum”, “mean”])

Question 91

fortune = pd.read_csv(“fortune1000.csv”, index_col = “Rank”)

sectors = fortune.groupby(“Sector”)

fortune.head(3)

for sector, data in sectors:

highest_revenue_company_in_group = data.nlargest(1, “Revenue”)

df = df.append(highest_revenue_company_in_group

What does this code accomplish?