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Python | pandas.to_numeric method

Python is a great language for doing data analysis, primarily because of the fantastic ecosystem of data-centric python packages. Pandas is one of those packages and makes importing and analyzing data much easier.

pandas.to_numeric() is one of the general functions in Pandas which is used to convert argument to a numeric type.

Syntax: pandas.to_numeric(arg, errors=’raise’, downcast=None)

Parameters:
arg : list, tuple, 1-d array, or Series
errors : {‘ignore’, ‘raise’, ‘coerce’}, default ‘raise’
-> If ‘raise’, then invalid parsing will raise an exception
-> If ‘coerce’, then invalid parsing will be set as NaN
-> If ‘ignore’, then invalid parsing will return the input
downcast : [default None] If not None, and if the data has been successfully cast to a numerical dtype downcast that resulting data to the smallest numerical dtype possible according to the following rules:
-> ‘integer’ or ‘signed’: smallest signed int dtype (min.: np.int8)
-> ‘unsigned’: smallest unsigned int dtype (min.: np.uint8)
-> ‘float’: smallest float dtype (min.: np.float32)

Returns: numeric if parsing succeeded. Note that return type depends on input. Series if Series, otherwise ndarray.

Code #1:

Observe this dataset first. We’ll use ‘Numbers’ column of this data in order to make Series and then do the operation.




# importing pandas module 
import pandas as pd 
    
# making data frame 
  
df.head(10)

Calling Series constructor on Number column and then selecting first 10 rows.




# importing pandas module 
import pandas as pd 
    
# making data frame 
df = pd.read_csv("nba.csv"
  
  
# get first ten 'numbers'
ser = pd.Series(df['Number']).head(10)
ser

Output:

Using pd.to_numeric() method. Observe that by using downcast=’signed’, all the values will be casted to integer.




pd.to_numeric(ser, downcast ='signed')

Output:

 

Code #2: Using errors=’ignore’. It will ignore all non-numeric values.




# importing pandas module 
import pandas as pd 
    
  
# get first ten 'numbers'
ser = pd.Series(['Geeks', 11, 22.7, 33])
  
pd.to_numeric(ser, errors ='ignore')

Output:

 
Code #3: Using errors=’coerce’. It will replace all non-numeric values with NaN.




# importing pandas module 
import pandas as pd 
    
  
# get first ten 'numbers'
ser = pd.Series(['Geeks', 11, 22.7, 33])
  
pd.to_numeric(ser, errors ='coerce')

Output:


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