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Ashish Kumar
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Ashish Kumar

Ashish Kumar is a seasoned data science professional, a publisher author and a thought leader in the field of data science and machine learning. An IIT Madras graduate and a Young India Fellow, he has around 7 years of experience in implementing and deploying data science and machine learning solutions for challenging industry problems in both hands-on and leadership roles. Natural Language Procession, IoT Analytics, R Shiny product development, Ensemble ML methods etc. are his core areas of expertise. He is fluent in Python and R and teaches a popular ML course at Simplilearn. When not crunching data, Ashish sneaks off to the next hip beach around and enjoys the company of his Kindle. He also trains and mentors data science aspirants and fledgling start-ups.
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pandas string methods

This section talks about the pandas string methods. These methods are useful when dealing with messy text data. These methods clean the text data, structure it, segment it, and search important chunks of it. Let's look into these methods and find out what each of them contains.

upper(), lower(), capitalize(), title(), and swapcase()

String methods such as upper(), lower(), capitalize(), title(), and swapcase() help when we wish to convert all the string elements into an entire series. The upper and lower methods convert the entire string into uppercase or lowercase. The following command shows converting a series into uppercase:

sample_df["Movie"].str.upper()

The following is the output...

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Ashish Kumar

Ashish Kumar is a seasoned data science professional, a publisher author and a thought leader in the field of data science and machine learning. An IIT Madras graduate and a Young India Fellow, he has around 7 years of experience in implementing and deploying data science and machine learning solutions for challenging industry problems in both hands-on and leadership roles. Natural Language Procession, IoT Analytics, R Shiny product development, Ensemble ML methods etc. are his core areas of expertise. He is fluent in Python and R and teaches a popular ML course at Simplilearn. When not crunching data, Ashish sneaks off to the next hip beach around and enjoys the company of his Kindle. He also trains and mentors data science aspirants and fledgling start-ups.
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