UNABLE TO UNDERSTAND THE WORKING OF FUNCTION HERE
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My Code:
def get_first_two_chars(dbn):
return dbn[0:2]
combined[“school_dist”] = combined[“DBN”].apply(get_first_two_chars)
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What I expected to happen:
What actually happened:
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The get_first_two_chars function takes in an argument, which I’m assuming is a string and return the first two characters of the string. For example, if it takes in the string "dataquest" it would return "da".
The apply method is used to apply a function to an entire series at once. You applied the get_first_two_chars function to the combined[“DBN”] series, so it returns the first two characters of each element of the series. Finally, you assigned these elements to combined[“school_dist”] . Therefore each element of the school_dist column of the combined dataframe is made by the first two characters of the DBN column.
You can read more about the apply method here.