Sunday, September 20, 2020

How to rename columns in Pandas Dataframe

In this tutorial, we will cover various methods to rename columns in pandas dataframe in Python. Renaming or changing the names of columns is one of the most common data wrangling task. If you are not from programming background and worked only in Excel Spreadsheets in the past you might feel it not so easy doing this in Python as you can easily rename columns in MS Excel by just typing in the cell what you want to have. If you are from database background it is similar to ALIAS in SQL. In Python there is a popular data manipulation package called pandas which simplifies doing these kind of data operations.
2 Methods to rename columns in Pandas
In Pandas there are two simple methods to rename name of columns.

First step is to install pandas package if it is not already installed. You can check if the package is installed on your machine by running

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