pandas Simple manipulation of DataFrames Locate and replace data in a column
Example
import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame({'gender': ["male", "female","female"],
'id': [1, 2, 3] })
>>> df
gender id
0 male 1
1 female 2
2 female 3
To encode the male to 0 and female to 1:
df.loc[df["gender"] == "male","gender"] = 0
df.loc[df["gender"] == "female","gender"] = 1
>>> df
gender id
0 0 1
1 1 2
2 1 3
