Pandas notes

Memory Ideas

print the data frame types:

   df.dtypes

print if the data frame columns are dense are sparse:

   df.ftypes

Other ideas:

   df.info()
   df.info(memory_usage='deep')
   df.memory_usage(deep=True)
   sys.getsizeof(df)
   

Convert the record_id field from an integer to a float

   surveys_df['record_id'] = surveys_df['record_id'].astype('float64')
   surveys_df['record_id'].dtype

References:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22470690/get-list-of-pandas-dataframe-columns-based-on-data-type
• http://chris.friedline.net/2015-12-15-rutgers/lessons/python2/03-data-types-and-format.html
• https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.DataFrame.memory_usage.html
• https://www.dataquest.io/blog/pandas-big-data/
• https://medium.com/@jeru92/reducing-data-capacity-for-quicker-predictions-8d1210ed9536