Questions tagged [data-manipulation]

Manipulating data involves transforming information from a state of little utility to one that is more practical and beneficial.

Manipulating dictionaries within a list in Python

Recently, I have encountered an issue with a personal script that I developed, which involves using dictionaries to achieve a specific structure. The initial structure looks like this: [ {'airfare': 1000, 'place': 'nameOfPlace&ap ...

Generating additional columns by evaluating criteria from existing columns

I am working with a dataframe that looks like the following: Max Min Id 1 10 5 AAA 2 15 10 AAB 3 10 7 AAC 4 20 15 AAD 5 15 10 AAE My goal is to add a new column to the ...

Choosing which columns to copy from a Pandas DataFrame

I want to duplicate my current df to another pandas dataframe. If I specify columns to copy, I can do so like this: df_copy = df[['col_A', 'col_B', 'col_C']].copy() Is there a way to copy all columns except for the ones specified using this method? I att ...