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Extracting the hour component

With the datetime properly parsed, you want to identify when bike demand peaks during the day. To compare rentals across different hours, you need to extract the hour component from each timestamp.

polars is loaded as pl. The DataFrame bikes is available with the time column already parsed as a Datetime.

This exercise is part of the course

Data Transformation with Polars

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Exercise instructions

  • Extract the hour from the time column and name the new column hour.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Extract the hour from the time column
bikes.with_columns(
    pl.col("time").____.____().____("hour")
)
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