Downcasting numeric columns
Now that the ranges look safe, cast the numeric columns to smaller dtypes. Use Int32 for the integer columns and Float32 for the floats where lower precision is still good enough for summary stats.
The movies DataFrame is preloaded for you.
Este ejercicio forma parte del curso
Scaling and Optimizing Data Pipelines with Polars
Instrucciones del ejercicio
- Cast
vote_countandbudgettopl.Int32. - Cast
runtimeandvote_averagetopl.Float32.
ejercicio interactivo práctico
Prueba este ejercicio completando este código de ejemplo.
movies_optimized = movies.with_columns(
# Integer columns to Int32
pl.col("vote_count").cast(pl.____),
pl.col("budget").cast(pl.____),
# Float columns to Float32
pl.col("runtime").cast(pl.____),
pl.col("vote_average").cast(pl.____),
)
result = movies_optimized.select(
"movie_title", "budget", "runtime", "vote_average", "vote_count"
).head(8)
print(result)