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Exercise

Extracting datetime components

There are several columns in the volunteer dataset comprised of datetimes. Let's take a look at the start_date_date column and extract just the month to use as a feature for modeling.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Convert the start_date_date column into a pandas datetime column and store it in a new column called start_date_converted.
  • Retrieve the month component of start_date_converted and store it in a new column called start_date_month.
  • Print the .head() of just the start_date_converted and start_date_month columns.