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Exercise

Converting a column type

If you take a look at the volunteer dataset types, you'll see that the column hits is type object. But, if you actually look at the column, you'll see that it consists of integers. Let's convert that column to type int.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Take a look at the .head() of the hits column.
  • Convert the hits column to type int.
  • Take a look at the .dtypes of the dataset again, and notice that the column type has changed.