I have a python pandas dataframe with several columns and one column has 0 values. I want to replace the 0 values with the median or mean of this column.
data is my dataframe
artist_hotness is the column
mean_artist_hotness = data['artist_hotness'].dropna().mean()
if len(data.artist_hotness[ data.artist_hotness.isnull() ]) > 0:
data.artist_hotness.loc[ (data.artist_hotness.isnull()), 'artist_hotness'] = mean_artist_hotness
I tried this, but it is not working.
解决方案
I think you can use mask and add parameter skipna=True to mean instead dropna. Also need change condition to data.artist_hotness == 0 if need replace 0 values or data.artist_hotness.isnull() if need replace NaN values:
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
data = pd.DataFrame({'artist_hotness': [0,1,5,np.nan]})
print (data)
artist_hotness
0 0.0
1 1.0
2 5.0
3 NaN
mean_artist_hotness = data['artist_hotness'].mean(skipna=True)
print (mean_artist_hotness)
2.0
data['artist_hotness']=data.artist_hotness.mask(data.artist_hotness == 0,mean_artist_hotness)
print (data)
artist_hotness
0 2.0
1 1.0
2 5.0
3 NaN
Alternatively use loc, but omit column name:
data.loc[data.artist_hotness == 0, 'artist_hotness'] = mean_artist_hotness
print (data)
artist_hotness
0 2.0
1 1.0
2 5.0
3 NaN
data.artist_hotness.loc[data.artist_hotness == 0, 'artist_hotness'] = mean_artist_hotness
print (data)
IndexingError: (0 True
1 False
2 False
3 False
Name: artist_hotness, dtype: bool, 'artist_hotness')
Another solution is DataFrame.replace with specifying columns:
data=data.replace({'artist_hotness': {0: mean_artist_hotness}})
print (data)
aa artist_hotness
0 0.0 2.0
1 1.0 1.0
2 5.0 5.0
3 NaN NaN
Or if need replace all 0 values in all columns:
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
data = pd.DataFrame({'artist_hotness': [0,1,5,np.nan], 'aa': [0,1,5,np.nan]})
print (data)
aa artist_hotness
0 0.0 0.0
1 1.0 1.0
2 5.0 5.0
3 NaN NaN
mean_artist_hotness = data['artist_hotness'].mean(skipna=True)
print (mean_artist_hotness)
2.0
data=data.replace(0,mean_artist_hotness)
print (data)
aa artist_hotness
0 2.0 2.0
1 1.0 1.0
2 5.0 5.0
3 NaN NaN
If need replace NaN in all columns use DataFrame.fillna:
data=data.fillna(mean_artist_hotness)
print (data)
aa artist_hotness
0 0.0 0.0
1 1.0 1.0
2 5.0 5.0
3 2.0 2.0
But if only in some columns use Series.fillna:
data['artist_hotness'] = data.artist_hotness.fillna(mean_artist_hotness)
print (data)
aa artist_hotness
0 0.0 0.0
1 1.0 1.0
2 5.0 5.0
3 NaN 2.0