Any chance you could post one line of data so we can see what we have to work with?
Also - have you taken a look at Jake VanderPlas's notebooks? There's lot of help with pandas to be found there: https://github.com/jakevdp/PythonDataScienceHandbook Paul. On 24 June 2017 at 10:32, Bhaskar Dhariyal <dhariyalbhas...@gmail.com> wrote: > <class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'> > Int64Index: 171594 entries, 0 to 63464 > Data columns (total 7 columns): > project_id 171594 non-null object > desc 171594 non-null object > goal 171594 non-null float64 > keywords 171594 non-null object > diff_creat_laun 171594 non-null int64 > diff_laun_status 171594 non-null int64 > diff_status_dead 171594 non-null int64 > dtypes: float64(1), int64(3), object(3) > > not able to convert desc and keywords to string for preprocessing. > Tried astype(str). Please help > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Paul Barry, t: @barrypj <https://twitter.com/barrypj> - w: http://paulbarry.itcarlow.ie - e: paul.ba...@itcarlow.ie Lecturer, Computer Networking: Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list