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             


        

Answer 1

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

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

Answer 2

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 3

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 4

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 5

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 6

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.