import pandas as pd class Preprocessor: def __init__(self, dataframe): self.df = dataframe # Finding Saturated Columns – Columns with same values in all rows saturated_cols = [] for col in self.df.columns: first_value = self.df[col].iloc[0] if self.df[col].equals(pd.Series([first_value] * len(self.df[col]))): saturated_cols.append(col) # At this point, we can drop the saturated columns as they don't provide any useful information self.df.drop(saturated_cols, axis=1, inplace=True) # Replace all NaN values with 0 if the column is numeric or empty string if the column is string for col in self.df.columns: if self.df[col].dtype == 'float64' or self.df[col].dtype == 'int64': self.df[col].fillna(0, inplace=True) if self.df[col].dtype == 'object': self.df[col].fillna('', inplace=True) # Replace all NaN values with 0 if the column is numeric or empty string if the column is string for col in self.df.columns: if self.df[col].dtype == 'float64' or self.df[col].dtype == 'int64': self.df[col].fillna(0, inplace=True) if self.df[col].dtype == 'object': self.df[col].fillna('', inplace=True) # Convert column to string if column is not numeric or boolean for col in self.df.columns: if self.df[col].dtype != 'float64' and self.df[col].dtype != 'int64' and self.df[col].dtype != 'bool': self.df[col] = self.df[col].astype(str) # Check for title duplicates # print('Duplicate titles: {}'.format(self.df['title'].duplicated().sum())) # Same post data can be repeated from the API -Delete titles that appear more than once self.df.drop_duplicates(subset=['title'], keep='first', inplace=True) # Find all columns that contain 'flair' columns = list(self.df.columns) flair_columns = self.search(columns, 'flair') # remove everything from df columns except link_flair_text and author_flair_text flair_columns = list(filter(lambda x: x not in ['link_flair_text', 'author_flair_text'], flair_columns)) self.df.drop(flair_columns, axis=1, inplace=True) # Any rows containing [deleted] and [removed] are not useful for our analysis. Find any rows with these values and drop them. columns = list(self.df.columns) for column in columns: self.df = self.df[self.df[column] != '[deleted]'] self.df = self.df[self.df[column] != '[removed]'] # Remove all posts which are polls - where poll_data is not "" try: self.df = self.df[self.df['poll_data'] == ''] except: pass self.df['created_utc'] = pd.to_datetime(self.df['created_utc'], unit='s') self.df['hour'] = self.df['created_utc'].dt.hour self.df['day'] = self.df['created_utc'].dt.day_name() # self.df.drop('created_utc', axis=1, inplace=True) cols_to_keep = ['title', 'selftext', 'link_flair_text', 'subreddit', 'ups', 'num_comments', 'hour', 'day', 'distinguished', 'author_premium', 'subreddit_subscribers', 'author', 'score', 'created_utc', 'upvote_ratio', 'total_awards_received'] self.df = self.df[cols_to_keep] # "distinguished" coloumn has 2 values - "moderator" and "" - We can convert this to a boolean column self.df['distinguished'] = self.df['distinguished'].apply(lambda x: True if x == 'moderator' else False) # Convert author_premium to boolean self.df['author_premium'] = self.df['author_premium'].apply(lambda x: True if x == True else False) # Convert title, selftext, link_flair_text, subreddit to string self.df['title'] = self.df['title'].astype(str) self.df['selftext'] = self.df['selftext'].astype(str) self.df['link_flair_text'] = self.df['link_flair_text'].astype(str) self.df['subreddit'] = self.df['subreddit'].astype(str) self.df['day'] = self.df['day'].astype(str) self.df['distinguished'] = self.df['distinguished'].astype(bool) self.df['hour'] = self.df['hour'].astype(int) self.df['ups'] = self.df['ups'].astype(int) self.df['num_comments'] = self.df['num_comments'].astype(int) # Supplimentary Column Search Function def search(self, array, search_term): """ Returns a list of strings that contain the search term. """ return [string for string in array if search_term in string] def get_preprocessed_data(self): return self.df