pandas timestamp to number code example

Example 1: from string to time python dataframe

dfc['Time_of_Sail'] = pd.to_datetime(dfc['Time_of_Sail'],format= '%H:%M:%S' ).dt.time

Example 2: pandas categorical to numeric

#this will label as one hot vectors (origin is split into 3 columns - USA, Europe, Japan and any one place will be 1 while the others are 0)
dataset['Origin'] = dataset['Origin'].map({1: 'USA', 2: 'Europe', 3: 'Japan'})