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Scientific Computing with Python - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838822323
Pages 392 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Authors (3):
Claus Führer Claus Führer
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Jan Erik Solem Jan Erik Solem
Olivier Verdier Olivier Verdier
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface Getting Started Variables and Basic Types Container Types Linear Algebra - Arrays Advanced Array Concepts Plotting Functions Classes Iterating Series and Dataframes - Working with Pandas Communication by a Graphical User Interface Error and Exception Handling Namespaces, Scopes, and Modules Input and Output Testing Symbolic Computations - SymPy Interacting with the Operating System Python for Parallel Computing Comprehensive Examples About Packt Other Books You May Enjoy References

10.4.2 Calculations within dataframes

We can do simple calculations on dataframe columns by applying functions on every element of the column, that is, elementwise application of functions. These functions can be built-in Python functions, NumPy functions, or user-defined functions, such as lambda functions (see Section 7.7, Anonymous functions).

The simplest way is to operate on the columns directly. In the following example, we convert watts into kilowatts and Swedish crowns (SEK) into Euros by using the conversion rate, which was the actual rate on the day of the measurement:

solar_converted=pd.DataFrame()
solar_converted['kW']=solar_all['Watt']/1000
solar_converted['Euro']=solar_all['SEK']/solar_all['Euro_SEK']

Tacitly, we also adjusted the column labels to the converted units.

The command solar_converted.loc['2020-07-01 7:00':'2020-07-01 7:04'] then returns the converted data for July...

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