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Write a Python code to convert a given series into a dummy variable and drop any NaN values if they exist
Assume, you have a series and the result for converting to dummy variable as,
Female Male 0 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 1 3 1 0 4 0 1 5 0 0 6 1 0 7 1 0
To solve this, we will follow the steps given below −
Solution
Create a list with ‘Male’ and ‘Female’ elements and assign into Series.
Apply get_dummies function inside series and set dummy_na value as False. It is defined below,
pd.get_dummies(series, dummy_na=False)
Example
Let’s check the following code to get a better understanding −
import pandas as pd import numpy as np gender = ['Male','Female','Male','Female','Male',np.nan,'Female','Female',] series = pd.Series(gender) print("Series is:\n",series) print("Dummy code is:\n", pd.get_dummies(series, dummy_na=False))
Output
Series is: 0 Male 1 Female 2 Male 3 Female 4 Male 5 NaN 6 Female 7 Female dtype: object Dummy code is: Female Male 0 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 1 3 1 0 4 0 1 5 0 0 6 1 0 7 1 0
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