Convert Object to Float in Pandas
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If your date column is a string of the format ‘2017-01-01’ you can use pandas astype to convert it to datetime . You can try it with other formats then ‘%Y-%m-%d’ but at least this works.
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Steps to Convert Strings to Datetime in Pandas DataFrame
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The date column is indeed a string, which—remember—is denoted as an object type in Python. You can convert it to the datetime type with the . to_datetime() method in pandas .
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