replace_nullable_types
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.. py:module:: evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.preprocessing.replace_nullable_types

.. autoapi-nested-parse::

   Transformer to replace features with the new nullable dtypes with a dtype that is compatible in EvalML.



Module Contents
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Classes Summary
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.. autoapisummary::

   evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.preprocessing.replace_nullable_types.ReplaceNullableTypes





Contents
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.. py:class:: ReplaceNullableTypes(random_seed=0, **kwargs)



   Transformer to replace features with the new nullable dtypes with a dtype that is compatible in EvalML.


   **Attributes**

   .. list-table::
      :widths: 15 85
      :header-rows: 0

      * - **hyperparameter_ranges**
        - None
      * - **modifies_features**
        - True
      * - **modifies_target**
        - {}
      * - **name**
        - Replace Nullable Types Transformer
      * - **training_only**
        - False


   **Methods**

   .. autoapisummary::
      :nosignatures:

      evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.preprocessing.replace_nullable_types.ReplaceNullableTypes.clone
      evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.preprocessing.replace_nullable_types.ReplaceNullableTypes.default_parameters
      evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.preprocessing.replace_nullable_types.ReplaceNullableTypes.describe
      evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.preprocessing.replace_nullable_types.ReplaceNullableTypes.fit
      evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.preprocessing.replace_nullable_types.ReplaceNullableTypes.fit_transform
      evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.preprocessing.replace_nullable_types.ReplaceNullableTypes.load
      evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.preprocessing.replace_nullable_types.ReplaceNullableTypes.needs_fitting
      evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.preprocessing.replace_nullable_types.ReplaceNullableTypes.parameters
      evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.preprocessing.replace_nullable_types.ReplaceNullableTypes.save
      evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.preprocessing.replace_nullable_types.ReplaceNullableTypes.transform
      evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.preprocessing.replace_nullable_types.ReplaceNullableTypes.update_parameters

   .. py:method:: clone(self)

      Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.

      :returns: A new instance of this component with identical parameters and random state.


   .. py:method:: default_parameters(cls)

      Returns the default parameters for this component.

      Our convention is that Component.default_parameters == Component().parameters.

      :returns: Default parameters for this component.
      :rtype: dict


   .. py:method:: describe(self, print_name=False, return_dict=False)

      Describe a component and its parameters.

      :param print_name: whether to print name of component
      :type print_name: bool, optional
      :param return_dict: whether to return description as dictionary in the format {"name": name, "parameters": parameters}
      :type return_dict: bool, optional

      :returns: Returns dictionary if return_dict is True, else None.
      :rtype: None or dict


   .. py:method:: fit(self, X, y=None)

      Fits component to data.

      :param X: The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features].
      :type X: pd.DataFrame
      :param y: The target training data of length [n_samples].
      :type y: pd.Series, optional

      :returns: self


   .. py:method:: fit_transform(self, X, y=None)

      Substitutes non-nullable types for the new pandas nullable types in the data and target data.

      :param X: Input features.
      :type X: pd.DataFrame, optional
      :param y: Target data.
      :type y: pd.Series

      :returns: The input features and target data with the non-nullable types set.
      :rtype: tuple of pd.DataFrame, pd.Series


   .. py:method:: load(file_path)
      :staticmethod:

      Loads component at file path.

      :param file_path: Location to load file.
      :type file_path: str

      :returns: ComponentBase object


   .. py:method:: needs_fitting(self)

      Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.

      This can be overridden to False for components that do not need to be fit or whose fit methods do nothing.

      :returns: True.


   .. py:method:: parameters(self)
      :property:

      Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.


   .. py:method:: save(self, file_path, pickle_protocol=cloudpickle.DEFAULT_PROTOCOL)

      Saves component at file path.

      :param file_path: Location to save file.
      :type file_path: str
      :param pickle_protocol: The pickle data stream format.
      :type pickle_protocol: int


   .. py:method:: transform(self, X, y=None)

      Transforms data by replacing columns that contain nullable types with the appropriate replacement type.

      "float64" for nullable integers and "category" for nullable booleans.

      :param X: Data to transform
      :type X: pd.DataFrame
      :param y: Target data to transform
      :type y: pd.Series, optional

      :returns: Transformed X
                pd.Series: Transformed y
      :rtype: pd.DataFrame


   .. py:method:: update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

      Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

      :param update_dict: A dict of parameters to update.
      :type update_dict: dict
      :param reset_fit: If True, will set `_is_fitted` to False.
      :type reset_fit: bool, optional