Fill empty column – Pandas

Sometimes the dataframe contains an empty column and may pose a real problem in the real life scenario. Missing Data can also refer to as NA(Not Available) values in pandas. In DataFrame sometimes many datasets simply arrive with missing data, either because it exists and was not collected or it never existed. In this article, let’s see how to fill empty columns in dataframe using pandas.

Note: Link of csv file here.

Fill empty column:

Python3

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("Persons.csv")
df

First, we import pandas after that we load our CSV file in the df variable. Just try to run this in jupyter notebook or colab.

Output:

Python3

df.set_index('Name ', inplace=True)
df

This line used to remove index value, we don’t want that, so we remove it.

Output:

There are several methods used to fill the empty columns.we going to saw it one by one

Method 1:

In this method, we will use “df.fillna(0)” which replace all NaN elements with 0s.

Example:

Python3

df1 = df.fillna(0)
df1

Output:

Method 2:

In this method, we will use “df.fillna(method=’ffill’)” , which is used to propagate non-null values forward or backward.

Syntax: DataFrame.fillna(value=None, method=None, axis=None, inplace=False, limit=None, downcast=None)

Python3

df2 = df.fillna(method='ffill')
df2

Output:

Method 3:

In this method we will use “df.interpolate()” 

Syntax: DataFrame.interpolate(method=’linear’, axis=0, limit=None, inplace=False, limit_direction=None, limit_area=None, downcast=None, **kwargs)

Python3

df3 = df.interpolate()
df3

Output: