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Matt Harrison is an author, speaker, corporate trainer, and consultant. He authored the popular Learning the Pandas Library and Illustrated Guide to Python 3. He runs MetaSnake, which provides corporate and online training on Python and Data Science. In addition, he offers consulting services. He has worked on search engines, configuration management, storage, BI, predictive modeling, and in a variety of domains.
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Theodore Petrou is the founder of Dunder Data, a training company dedicated to helping teach the Python data science ecosystem effectively to individuals and corporations. Read his tutorials and attempt his data science challenges at the Dunder Data website.
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Filtering columns with time data

The last section showed how to filter data that has a DatetimeIndex. Often, you will have columns with dates in them, and it does not make sense to have that column be the index. In this section, we will reproduce the slicing of the preceding section with columns. Sadly, the slicing constructs do not work on columns, so we will have to take a different tack.

How to do it…

  1. Read in the Denver crimes dataset from the hdf5 file crimes.h5 and inspect the column types:
    >>> crime = pd.read_hdf('data/crime.h5', 'crime')
    >>> crime.dtypes
    OFFENSE_TYPE_ID              category
    OFFENSE_CATEGORY_ID          category
    REPORTED_DATE          datetime64[ns]
    GEO_LON                       float64
    GEO_LAT                       float64
    NEIGHBORHOOD_ID              category
    IS_CRIME                        int64
    IS_TRAFFIC                      int64
    dtype: object
    
  2. Select all the rows where...
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Matt Harrison

Matt Harrison is an author, speaker, corporate trainer, and consultant. He authored the popular Learning the Pandas Library and Illustrated Guide to Python 3. He runs MetaSnake, which provides corporate and online training on Python and Data Science. In addition, he offers consulting services. He has worked on search engines, configuration management, storage, BI, predictive modeling, and in a variety of domains.
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Theodore Petrou is the founder of Dunder Data, a training company dedicated to helping teach the Python data science ecosystem effectively to individuals and corporations. Read his tutorials and attempt his data science challenges at the Dunder Data website.
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