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.

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Istruzioni dell'esercizio

Cast vote_count and budget to pl.Int32.
Cast runtime and vote_average to pl.Float32.

esercizio interattivo pratico

Prova questo esercizio completando questo codice di esempio.

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)

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