该方法可以讲类别变量转换成新增的虚拟变量/指示变量。
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get_dummies(data, prefix=None, prefix_sep='_', dummy_na=False, columns=None, sparse=False, drop_first=False)
Convert categorical variable into dummy/indicator variables
Parameters
----------
data : array-like, Series, or DataFrame
prefix : string, list of strings, or dict of strings, default None
String to append DataFrame column names
Pass a list with length equal to the number of columns
when calling get_dummies on a DataFrame. Alternatively, `prefix`
can be a dictionary mapping column names to prefixes.
prefix_sep : string, default '_'
If appending prefix, separator/delimiter to use. Or pass a
list or dictionary as with `prefix.`
dummy_na : bool, default False
Add a column to indicate NaNs, if False NaNs are ignored.
columns : list-like, default None
Column names in the DataFrame to be encoded.
If `columns` is None then all the columns with
`object` or `category` dtype will be converted.
sparse : bool, default False
Whether the dummy columns should be sparse or not. Returns
SparseDataFrame if `data` is a Series or if all columns are included.
Otherwise returns a DataFrame with some SparseBlocks.
drop_first : bool, default False
Whether to get k-1 dummies out of k categorical levels by removing the
first level.
.. versionadded:: 0.18.0
Returns
-------
dummies : DataFrame or SparseDataFrame
Examples
--------
>>> import pandas as pd
>>> s = pd.Series(list('abca'))
>>> pd.get_dummies(s)
a b c
0 1 0 0
1 0 1 0
2 0 0 1
3 1 0 0
>>> s1 = ['a', 'b', np.nan]
>>> pd.get_dummies(s1)
a b
0 1 0
1 0 1
2 0 0
>>> pd.get_dummies(s1, dummy_na=True)
a b NaN
0 1 0 0
1 0 1 0
2 0 0 1
>>> df = pd.DataFrame({'A': ['a', 'b', 'a'], 'B': ['b', 'a', 'c'],
... 'C': [1, 2, 3]})
>>> pd.get_dummies(df, prefix=['col1', 'col2'])
C col1_a col1_b col2_a col2_b col2_c
0 1 1 0 0 1 0
1 2 0 1 1 0 0
2 3 1 0 0 0 1
>>> pd.get_dummies(pd.Series(list('abcaa')))
a b c
0 1 0 0
1 0 1 0
2 0 0 1
3 1 0 0
4 1 0 0
>>> pd.get_dummies(pd.Series(list('abcaa')), drop_first=True)
b c
0 0 0
1 1 0
2 0 1
3 0 0
4 0 0
See Also
--------
Series.str.get_dummies
