python - How to replace NaN values by Zeroes in a column of a Pandas Dataframe?

Question

I have a Pandas Dataframe as below:

      itm Date                  Amount 
67    420 2012-09-30 00:00:00   65211
68    421 2012-09-09 00:00:00   29424
69    421 2012-09-16 00:00:00   29877
70    421 2012-09-23 00:00:00   30990
71    421 2012-09-30 00:00:00   61303
72    485 2012-09-09 00:00:00   71781
73    485 2012-09-16 00:00:00     NaN
74    485 2012-09-23 00:00:00   11072
75    485 2012-09-30 00:00:00  113702
76    489 2012-09-09 00:00:00   64731
77    489 2012-09-16 00:00:00     NaN

When I try to apply a function to the Amount column, I get the following error:

ValueError: cannot convert float NaN to integer

I have tried applying a function using .isnan from the Math Module I have tried the pandas .replace attribute I tried the .sparse data attribute from pandas 0.9 I have also tried if NaN == NaN statement in a function. I have also looked at this article How do I replace NA values with zeros in an R dataframe? whilst looking at some other articles. All the methods I have tried have not worked or do not recognise NaN. Any Hints or solutions would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I believe DataFrame.fillna() will do this for you.

Link to Docs for a dataframe and for a Series.

Example:

In [7]: df
Out[7]: 
          0         1
0       NaN       NaN
1 -0.494375  0.570994
2       NaN       NaN
3  1.876360 -0.229738
4       NaN       NaN

In [8]: df.fillna(0)
Out[8]: 
          0         1
0  0.000000  0.000000
1 -0.494375  0.570994
2  0.000000  0.000000
3  1.876360 -0.229738
4  0.000000  0.000000

To fill the NaNs in only one column, select just that column. in this case I'm using inplace=True to actually change the contents of df.

In [12]: df[1].fillna(0, inplace=True)
Out[12]: 
0    0.000000
1    0.570994
2    0.000000
3   -0.229738
4    0.000000
Name: 1

In [13]: df
Out[13]: 
          0         1
0       NaN  0.000000
1 -0.494375  0.570994
2       NaN  0.000000
3  1.876360 -0.229738
4       NaN  0.000000

EDIT:

To avoid a SettingWithCopyWarning, use the built in column-specific functionality:

df.fillna({1:0}, inplace=True)

Answer 2

It is not guaranteed that the slicing returns a view or a copy. You can do

df['column'] = df['column'].fillna(value)

Answer 3

You could use replace to change NaN to 0:

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

# for column
df['column'] = df['column'].replace(np.nan, 0)

# for whole dataframe
df = df.replace(np.nan, 0)

# inplace
df.replace(np.nan, 0, inplace=True)

Answer 4

The below code worked for me.

import pandas

df = pandas.read_csv('somefile.txt')

df = df.fillna(0)

Answer 5

I just wanted to provide a bit of an update/special case since it looks like people still come here. If you're using a multi-index or otherwise using an index-slicer the inplace=True option may not be enough to update the slice you've chosen. For example in a 2x2 level multi-index this will not change any values (as of pandas 0.15):

idx = pd.IndexSlice
df.loc[idx[:,mask_1],idx[mask_2,:]].fillna(value=0,inplace=True)

The "problem" is that the chaining breaks the fillna ability to update the original dataframe. I put "problem" in quotes because there are good reasons for the design decisions that led to not interpreting through these chains in certain situations. Also, this is a complex example (though I really ran into it), but the same may apply to fewer levels of indexes depending on how you slice.

The solution is DataFrame.update:

df.update(df.loc[idx[:,mask_1],idx[[mask_2],:]].fillna(value=0))

It's one line, reads reasonably well (sort of) and eliminates any unnecessary messing with intermediate variables or loops while allowing you to apply fillna to any multi-level slice you like!

If anybody can find places this doesn't work please post in the comments, I've been messing with it and looking at the source and it seems to solve at least my multi-index slice problems.

Answer 6

Easy way to fill the missing values:-

filling string columns: when string columns have missing values and NaN values.

df['string column name'].fillna(df['string column name'].mode().values[0], inplace = True)

filling numeric columns: when the numeric columns have missing values and NaN values.

df['numeric column name'].fillna(df['numeric column name'].mean(), inplace = True)

filling NaN with zero:

df['column name'].fillna(0, inplace = True)

Answer 7

You can also use dictionaries to fill NaN values of the specific columns in the DataFrame rather to fill all the DF with some oneValue.

import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_excel('example.xlsx')
df.fillna( {
        'column1': 'Write your values here',
        'column2': 'Write your values here',
        'column3': 'Write your values here',
        'column4': 'Write your values here',
        .
        .
        .
        'column-n': 'Write your values here'} , inplace=True)

Answer 8

Considering the particular column Amount in the above table is of integer type. The following would be a solution :

df['Amount'] = df.Amount.fillna(0).astype(int)

Similarly, you can fill it with various data types like float, str and so on.

In particular, I would consider datatype to compare various values of the same column.

Answer 9

To replace na values in pandas

df['column_name'].fillna(value_to_be_replaced,inplace=True)

if inplace = False, instead of updating the df (dataframe) it will return the modified values.

Answer 10

To replace nan in different columns with different ways:

   replacement= {'column_A': 0, 'column_B': -999, 'column_C': -99999}
   df.fillna(value=replacement)

Answer 11

If you were to convert it to a pandas dataframe, you can also accomplish this by using fillna.

import numpy as np
df=np.array([[1,2,3, np.nan]])

import pandas as pd
df=pd.DataFrame(df)
df.fillna(0)

This will return the following:

     0    1    2   3
0  1.0  2.0  3.0 NaN
>>> df.fillna(0)
     0    1    2    3
0  1.0  2.0  3.0  0.0

Answer 12

There are two options available primarily; in case of imputation or filling of missing values NaN / np.nan with only numerical replacements (across column(s):

df['Amount'].fillna(value=None, method= ,axis=1,) is sufficient:

From the Documentation:

value : scalar, dict, Series, or DataFrame Value to use to fill holes (e.g. 0), alternately a dict/Series/DataFrame of values specifying which value to use for each index (for a Series) or column (for a DataFrame). (values not in the dict/Series/DataFrame will not be filled). This value cannot be a list.

Which means 'strings' or 'constants' are no longer permissable to be imputed.

For more specialized imputations use SimpleImputer():

from sklearn.impute import SimpleImputer
si = SimpleImputer(strategy='constant', missing_values=np.nan, fill_value='Replacement_Value')
df[['Col-1', 'Col-2']] = si.fit_transform(X=df[['C-1', 'C-2']])

Answer 13

Replace all nan with 0

df = df.fillna(0)

Answer 14

If you want to fill NaN for a specific column you can use loc:

d1 = {"Col1" : ['A', 'B', 'C'],
     "fruits": ['Avocado', 'Banana', 'NaN']}
d1= pd.DataFrame(d1)

output:

Col1    fruits
0   A   Avocado
1   B   Banana
2   C   NaN


d1.loc[ d1.Col1=='C', 'fruits' ] =  'Carrot'


output:

Col1    fruits
0   A   Avocado
1   B   Banana
2   C   Carrot

Answer 15

This works for me, but no one's mentioned it. could there be something wrong with it?

df.loc[df['column_name'].isnull(), 'column_name'] = 0