Question
Asked By – natsuki_2002
I’ve got a pandas dataframe. I want to ‘lag’ one of my columns. Meaning, for example, shifting the entire column ‘gdp’ up by one, and then removing all the excess data at the bottom of the remaining rows so that all columns are of equal length again.
df =
y gdp cap
0 1 2 5
1 2 3 9
2 8 7 2
3 3 4 7
4 6 7 7
df_lag =
y gdp cap
0 1 3 5
1 2 7 9
2 8 4 2
3 3 7 7
Anyway to do this?
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Answer
In [44]: df['gdp'] = df['gdp'].shift(-1)
In [45]: df
Out[45]:
y gdp cap
0 1 3 5
1 2 7 9
2 8 4 2
3 3 7 7
4 6 NaN 7
In [46]: df[:-1]
Out[46]:
y gdp cap
0 1 3 5
1 2 7 9
2 8 4 2
3 3 7 7
This question is answered By – Wouter Overmeire
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