pyjanitor

pyjanitor is a Python implementation of the R package janitor, and provides a clean API for cleaning data.

Quick start

• Installation: conda install -c conda-forge pyjanitor. Read more installation instructions here.
• Check out the collection of general functions.

Why janitor?

Originally a port of the R package, pyjanitor has evolved from a set of convenient data cleaning routines into an experiment with the method chaining paradigm.

Data preprocessing usually consists of a series of steps that involve transforming raw data into an understandable/usable format. These series of steps need to be run in a certain sequence to achieve success. We take a base data file as the starting point, and perform actions on it, such as removing null/empty rows, replacing them with other values, adding/renaming/removing columns of data, filtering rows and others. More formally, these steps along with their relationships and dependencies are commonly referred to as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG).

The pandas API has been invaluable for the Python data science ecosystem, and implements method chaining of a subset of methods as part of the API. For example, resetting indexes (.reset_index()), dropping null values (.dropna()), and more, are accomplished via the appropriate pd.DataFrame method calls.

Inspired by the ease-of-use and expressiveness of the dplyr package of the R statistical language ecosystem, we have evolved pyjanitor into a language for expressing the data processing DAG for pandas users.

Installation

pyjanitor is currently installable from PyPI:

pip install pyjanitor

pyjanitor also can be installed by the conda package manager:

conda install pyjanitor -c conda-forge

pyjanitor can be installed by the pipenv environment manager too. This requires enabling prerelease dependencies:

pipenv install --pre pyjanitor

pyjanitor requires Python 3.6+.

Functionality

Current functionality includes:

• Cleaning columns name (multi-indexes are possible!)
• Removing empty rows and columns
• Identifying duplicate entries
• Encoding columns as categorical
• Splitting your data into features and targets (for machine learning)
• Adding, removing, and renaming columns
• Coalesce multiple columns into a single column
• Date conversions (from matlab, excel, unix) to Python datetime format
• Expand a single column that has delimited, categorical values into dummy-encoded variables
• Concatenating and deconcatenating columns, based on a delimiter
• Syntactic sugar for filtering the dataframe based on queries on a column
• Experimental submodules for finance, biology, chemistry, engineering, and pyspark