Pandas: Drop those rows in which specific columns have missing values

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9. Drop Rows with Missing Values in Specific Columns

Write a Pandas program to drop those rows from a given DataFrame in which spicific columns have missing values.

Test Data:

    ord_no  purch_amt    ord_date  customer_id
0       NaN        NaN         NaN          NaN
1       NaN     270.65  2012-09-10       3001.0
2   70002.0      65.26         NaN       3001.0
3       NaN        NaN         NaN          NaN
4       NaN     948.50  2012-09-10       3002.0
5   70005.0    2400.60  2012-07-27       3001.0
6       NaN    5760.00  2012-09-10       3001.0
7   70010.0    1983.43  2012-10-10       3004.0
8   70003.0    2480.40  2012-10-10       3003.0
9   70012.0     250.45  2012-06-27       3002.0
10      NaN      75.29  2012-08-17       3001.0
11      NaN        NaN         NaN          NaN

Sample Solution:

Python Code :

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
pd.set_option('display.max_rows', None)
#pd.set_option('display.max_columns', None)
df = pd.DataFrame({
'ord_no':[np.nan,np.nan,70002,np.nan,np.nan,70005,np.nan,70010,70003,70012,np.nan,np.nan],
'purch_amt':[np.nan,270.65,65.26,np.nan,948.5,2400.6,5760,1983.43,2480.4,250.45, 75.29,np.nan],
'ord_date': [np.nan,'2012-09-10',np.nan,np.nan,'2012-09-10','2012-07-27','2012-09-10','2012-10-10','2012-10-10','2012-06-27','2012-08-17',np.nan],
'customer_id':[np.nan,3001,3001,np.nan,3002,3001,3001,3004,3003,3002,3001,np.nan]})
print("Original Orders DataFrame:")
print(df)
print("\nDrop those rows in which specific columns have missing values:")
result = df.dropna(subset=['ord_no', 'customer_id'])
print(result)

Sample Output:

Original Orders DataFrame:
     ord_no  purch_amt    ord_date  customer_id
0       NaN        NaN         NaN          NaN
1       NaN     270.65  2012-09-10       3001.0
2   70002.0      65.26         NaN       3001.0
3       NaN        NaN         NaN          NaN
4       NaN     948.50  2012-09-10       3002.0
5   70005.0    2400.60  2012-07-27       3001.0
6       NaN    5760.00  2012-09-10       3001.0
7   70010.0    1983.43  2012-10-10       3004.0
8   70003.0    2480.40  2012-10-10       3003.0
9   70012.0     250.45  2012-06-27       3002.0
10      NaN      75.29  2012-08-17       3001.0
11      NaN        NaN         NaN          NaN

Drop those rows in which specific columns have missing values:
    ord_no  purch_amt    ord_date  customer_id
2  70002.0      65.26         NaN       3001.0
5  70005.0    2400.60  2012-07-27       3001.0
7  70010.0    1983.43  2012-10-10       3004.0
8  70003.0    2480.40  2012-10-10       3003.0
9  70012.0     250.45  2012-06-27       3002.0

For more Practice: Solve these Related Problems:

Write a Pandas program to drop rows from a DataFrame if certain key columns contain missing values.
Write a Pandas program to filter out rows where specific columns (e.g., 'ord_date' or 'customer_id') are NaN.
Write a Pandas program to remove rows with missing data only in selected columns using the subset parameter in dropna().
Write a Pandas program to apply dropna() on a DataFrame targeting particular columns and then display the cleaned dataset.

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