Purpose
Represent a single column within a
DataFrame entity. Outside the Python model (e.g. VDL, Tableau), the column will be represented as a separate entity whose name combines the names of the DataFrame and the Column, concatenated by an underscore, i.e.
MyDataFrame_MyColumnName
Example
Example of declaring two columns
NumDays and
NumMonths which will contain integer values within a DataFrame.
>>> YearInfoFrame: xi.types.DataFrame(index='Years', columns=[
... xi.Column("NumDays", dtype=xi.integer,
... alias="Number of days"),
... xi.Column("NumMonths", dtype=xi.integer,
... alias="Number of years"),
... ])
When accessing the Insight data model from outside the Python app (for example, in VDL or Tableau views, or using the Insight REST API), this DataFrame is represented as two entities,
YearInfoFrame_NumDays and
YearInfoFrame_NumMonths. If values are inserted into these individual column entities outside the Python app, it's possible their indexes may not be consistent (e.g.
YearInfoFrame_NumDays having values for 2003, 2004 and 2005 while
YearInfoFrame_NumMonths has values for just 2003 and 2005). In this case, the empty cells in each column will be filled in with a default value when the DataFrame is loaded back into Python.
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