AttributeError: ‘Series’ object has no attribute ‘as_matrix’ Why is it error?

As stated in another answer, the as_matrix method is deprecated since 0.23.0, so you should use to_numpy instead. However, I want to highlight the fact that as_matrix and to_numpy have different signatures: as_matrix takes a list of column names as one of its parameter, in case you want to limit the conversion to a subset … Read more

What is the most efficient way in Python to convert a string to all lowercase stripping out all non-ascii alpha characters?

Another solution (not that pythonic, but very fast) is to use string.translate – though note that this will not work for unicode. It’s also worth noting that you can speed up Dana’s code by moving the characters into a set (which looks up by hash, rather than performing a linear search each time). Here are … Read more

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