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clean	This documentation page provides in-depth instructions on how to clean a dataset by filling and dropping NaN values using different methods. It covers the use of the function, parameters, choices, and detailed examples.	dataset cleaning NaN values data processing Python functions data analysis SEO optimization filling methods dropping methods

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Clean a dataset by filling and dropping NaN values.

Usage

clean [-n {}] [--fill {rfill,cfill,rbfill,cbfill,rffill,bffill}] [-d {rdrop,cdrop}]

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Parameters

Name	Description	Default	Optional	Choices
name	The name of the dataset you want to clean up	None	True	None
fill	The method of filling NaNs. This has options to fill rows (rfill, rbfill, rffill) or fill columns (cfill, cbfill, cffill). Furthermore, it has the option to forward fill and backward fill (up to --limit) which refer to how many rows/columns can be set equal to the last non-NaN value		True	rfill, cfill, rbfill, cbfill, rffill, bffill
drop	The method of dropping NaNs. This either has the option rdrop (drop rows that contain NaNs) or cdrop (drop columns that contain NaNs)		True	rdrop, cdrop

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Examples

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2022 Feb 24, 04:58 (🦋) /econometrics/ $ show thesis
                                                                                thesis
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃                                                ┃ current_assets ┃ assets  ┃ debt   ┃ depr_amor ┃ income ┃ current_liabilities ┃ revenue ┃ equity ┃ interest_expense ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ ('AAR Corp', Timestamp('2016-01-01 00:00:00')) │ 970.70         │ 1522.00 │ 160.00 │ 18.50     │ 9.90   │ 359.70              │ 412.10  │ 858.30 │ 1.70             │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────┼─────────┼────────┼───────────┼────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────┼────────┼──────────────────┤
│ ('AAR Corp', Timestamp('2016-04-01 00:00:00')) │ 873.10         │ 1442.10 │ 136.10 │ 17.80     │ 11.80  │ 329.00              │ 468.60  │ 865.80 │ 1.20             │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────┼─────────┼────────┼───────────┼────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────┼────────┼──────────────────┤
│ ('AAR Corp', Timestamp('2016-07-01 00:00:00')) │ 849.40         │ 1427.00 │ 142.80 │ nan       │ 9.90   │ 314.40              │ 404.80  │ 858.50 │ 1.30             │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────┼─────────┼────────┼───────────┼────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────┼────────┼──────────────────┤
│ ('AAR Corp', Timestamp('2016-10-01 00:00:00')) │ 901.80         │ 1486.60 │ 154.10 │ nan       │ 11.40  │ 350.90              │ 328.30  │ 872.40 │ 1.10             │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────┼─────────┼────────┼───────────┼────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────┼────────┼──────────────────┤
│ ('AAR Corp', Timestamp('2017-01-01 00:00:00')) │ 893.10         │ 1502.10 │ 168.70 │ nan       │ 14.40  │ 342.80              │ 407.20  │ 885.70 │ 1.40             │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────┼─────────┼────────┼───────────┼────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────┼────────┼──────────────────┤
│ ('AAR Corp', Timestamp('2017-04-01 00:00:00')) │ 888.50         │ 1504.10 │ 155.30 │ nan       │ 16.30  │ 335.10              │ 450.50  │ 914.20 │ 1.50             │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────┼─────────┼────────┼───────────┼────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────┼────────┼──────────────────┤
│ ('AAR Corp', Timestamp('2017-07-01 00:00:00')) │ 904.70         │ 1531.70 │ 189.00 │ 10.20     │ 11.00  │ 312.10              │ 397.90  │ 924.70 │ 1.70             │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────┼─────────┼────────┼───────────┼────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────┼────────┼──────────────────┤
│ ('AAR Corp', Timestamp('2017-10-01 00:00:00')) │ 892.20         │ 1544.30 │ 215.80 │ 10.60     │ 13.30  │ 336.50              │ 420.60  │ 906.50 │ 1.90             │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────┼─────────┼────────┼───────────┼────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────┼────────┼──────────────────┤
│ ('AAR Corp', Timestamp('2018-01-01 00:00:00')) │ 933.60         │ 1512.20 │ 194.30 │ 10.60     │ 31.30  │ 326.60              │ 456.30  │ 915.20 │ 2.20             │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────┼─────────┼────────┼───────────┼────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────┼────────┼──────────────────┤
│ ('AAR Corp', Timestamp('2018-04-01 00:00:00')) │ 942.70         │ 1524.70 │ 177.20 │ 9.10      │ 18.10  │ 333.30              │ 473.50  │ 936.30 │ 2.20             │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────┴────────────────┴─────────┴────────┴───────────┴────────┴─────────────────────┴─────────┴────────┴──────────────────┘

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