Pandas — Replacing NULL to ‘0’

Rasegaprabakar
2 min readMar 15, 2022

Hi All,

We all love to do something. We can able to start anything from scratch and become hero on it. Practice, Yeah, that’s keyword for anything. Nothing can lift you expect Practice .

To do something, we have to keep these mantra in mind.

Practice ! Practice ! practice !!!

Here, To enhance the knowledge on Pandas , we will try one small panda code. Hope everyone is ready with IDE to play with data.

A dataset with any dimension with data of mixed types across columns. Need to replace the null values with ‘0’

Step 1: Import the required packages.

To handle null records and read dataset, we need the python powerful package — numpy and pandas packages

Step 2: Read the dataset which have NULL values

Download Melbourne data from Kaggle and read the downloaded csv using read_csv().

Reading file using read_csv()

Step 3 : Check the NULL values in the dataframe

To check NULL values in dataframe, isnull() should help. It returns result in Boolean type.

NULL record check

Step 4: Replace NULL with 0

fillna() is used to acheive replacing NULL with 0. Here we are filling NULL values in the dataframe df with 0 and stored as df2.

fillna()

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