how to add a column to a pandas df
#using the insert function:
df.insert(location, column_name, list_of_values)
#example
df.insert(0, 'new_column', ['a','b','c'])
#explanation:
#put "new_column" as first column of the dataframe
#and puts 'a','b' and 'c' as values
#using array-like access:
df['new_column_name'] = value
#df stands for dataframehow to give name to column in pandas
>gapminder.rename(columns={'pop':'population',
'lifeExp':'life_exp',
'gdpPercap':'gdp_per_cap'},
inplace=True)
>print(gapminder.columns)
Index([u'country', u'year', u'population', u'continent', u'life_exp',
u'gdp_per_cap'],
dtype='object')
>gapminder.head(3)
country year population continent life_exp gdp_per_cap
0 Afghanistan 1952 8425333 Asia 28.801 779.445314
1 Afghanistan 1957 9240934 Asia 30.332 820.853030
2 Afghanistan 1962 10267083 Asia 31.997 853.100710Copyright © 2021 Codeinu
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