Pandas Series.gt()
is used to compare two series and return a boolean value for each matching item.
Syntax: Series.gt (other, level = None, fill_value = None, axis = 0)
Parameters:
other: other series to be compared with
level: int or name of level in case of multi level
fill_value: Value to be replaced instead of NaN
axis: 0 or ’index’ to apply method by rows and 1 or ’columns’ to apply by columns.Return type: Boolean series
Note: results are returned based on the calling series comparison" another series.
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In the following examples, the data frame used contains data for some NBA players. An image of the data frame before any operations is attached below.
Example # 1 :
In this example, the Age and Weight columns are copied using the .gt () method. Since the values in the weight columns are very large compared to the age column, therefore, the values are divisible by 10 first. The .dropna () method removes null rows before comparison to avoid errors.
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Output:
As shown in the output image, the new column is True, where the value in the Age column is greater than Weight / 10.
Example # 2: Handling NaN Values
In this example, two series are created using pd.Series ()
. The series also contains a zero value and therefore 5 is passed to the fill_value parameter to replace the zero values with 5.
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Output:
As you can see from the results, the NaN values have been replaced with 5, and the comparison is done after the replacement, and the new values are used for comparison .
0 True 1 True 2 False 3 True 4 True 5 False 6 False 7 True 8 False dtype: bool