Source code for evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.preprocessing.drop_null_columns

"""Transformer to drop features whose percentage of NaN values exceeds a specified threshold."""
from evalml.pipelines.components.transformers import Transformer
from evalml.utils import infer_feature_types


[docs]class DropNullColumns(Transformer): """Transformer to drop features whose percentage of NaN values exceeds a specified threshold. Args: pct_null_threshold(float): The percentage of NaN values in an input feature to drop. Must be a value between [0, 1] inclusive. If equal to 0.0, will drop columns with any null values. If equal to 1.0, will drop columns with all null values. Defaults to 0.95. random_seed (int): Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0. """ name = "Drop Null Columns Transformer" hyperparameter_ranges = {} """{}""" def __init__(self, pct_null_threshold=1.0, random_seed=0, **kwargs): if pct_null_threshold < 0 or pct_null_threshold > 1: raise ValueError( "pct_null_threshold must be a float between 0 and 1, inclusive." ) parameters = {"pct_null_threshold": pct_null_threshold} parameters.update(kwargs) self._cols_to_drop = None super().__init__( parameters=parameters, component_obj=None, random_seed=random_seed )
[docs] def fit(self, X, y=None): """Fits component to data. Args: X (pd.DataFrame): The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features]. y (pd.Series, optional): The target training data of length [n_samples]. Returns: self """ pct_null_threshold = self.parameters["pct_null_threshold"] X_t = infer_feature_types(X) percent_null = X_t.isnull().mean() if pct_null_threshold == 0.0: null_cols = percent_null[percent_null > 0] else: null_cols = percent_null[percent_null >= pct_null_threshold] self._cols_to_drop = list(null_cols.index) return self
[docs] def transform(self, X, y=None): """Transforms data X by dropping columns that exceed the threshold of null values. Args: X (pd.DataFrame): Data to transform y (pd.Series, optional): Ignored. Returns: pd.DataFrame: Transformed X """ X_t = infer_feature_types(X) if len(self._cols_to_drop) == 0: return X_t return X_t.ww.drop(self._cols_to_drop)