convert a column of a pandas dataframe from decimal to float code example
Example 1: convert column to numeric pandas
# convert all columns of DataFrame
df = df.apply(pd.to_numeric) # convert all columns of DataFrame
# convert just columns "a" and "b"
df[["a", "b"]] = df[["a", "b"]].apply(pd.to_numeric)
Example 2: make string numeric pandas
df['DataFrame Column'] = df['DataFrame Column'].astype(int)