13.NaN values.ipynb

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    "#### Detecting missing values with np.nan"
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    "This is because comparing missing value to anything results in a False - instead of this you should\n",
    "use"
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    "#### TIP :\n",
    "\n",
    "##### Pandas don't support missing in attributes of type integer. For example if you have missings in the grade column:\n"
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    "#df= pd.read_csv(\"data.csv\", dtype={'grade': int})\n",
    "# error: Integer column has NA values"
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    "In this case you just should use float instead of integers or set the object dtype."
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    "### Automatic Data Alignment (index-awared behaviour)\n"
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    "#### If you want to append a series of values [1,2] to the column of dataframe df, you will get NaNs:"
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    "import pandas as pd\n",
    "series=pd.Series([1,2])\n",
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    "because setting a new column automatically aligns the data by the indexe, and your values 1 and\n",
    "2 would get the indexes 0 and 1, and not 3 and 4 as in your data frame:"
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    "#### If you want to ignore index, you should set the .values at the end:"
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