Splitting a Column
Learn how to split columns using Python.
Introduction
The process of splitting a column involves breaking up a single column in a DataFrame into multiple columns. For example, we can split a Full Name
column into the First Name
and Last Name
columns based on the space delimiter. We perform this operation using the str.split()
method, which takes a delimiter as an input and returns a DataFrame with each element in the split separated into an individual column, i.e., df[['Last Name', 'First Name']] = df['Full Name'].str.split(' ')
. The goal of splitting a column is to make it easier to visualize and analyze data.
Split a column into two columns
Splitting a single column
To split a single ...