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Pandas Type | \n", "Native Python Type | \n", "Description | \n", "
---|---|---|
object | \n", "string | \n", "The most general dtype. Will be assigned to your column if column has mixed types (numbers and strings). | \n", "
int64 | \n", "int | \n", "Numeric characters. 64 refers to the memory allocated to hold this character. | \n", "
float64 | \n", "float | \n", "Numeric characters with decimals. If a column contains numbers and NaNs (see below), pandas will default to float64, in case your missing value has a decimal. | \n", "
datetime64, timedelta[ns] | \n", "N/A (but see the datetime module in Python’s standard library) | \n", "Values meant to hold time data. Look into these for time series experiments. | \n", "