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Ashish Kumar
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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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Other methods for reshaping DataFrames

There are various other methods that are related to reshaping DataFrames; we'll discuss them here.

Using the melt function

The melt function enables us to transform a DataFrame by designating some of its columns as ID columns, ensuring they remain as columns with the remaining non-ID columns treated as variable columns and are pivoted and become part of a name-value two-column scheme. ID columns uniquely identify a row in a DataFrame.

The names of those non-ID columns can be customized by supplying the var_name and value_name parameters. The use of melt is perhaps best illustrated by an example, as follows:

    In [385]: from pandas.core.reshape import melt
    
    In [401]: USIndexDataDF...
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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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