Concatenating DataFrames
When you have datasets spread across multiple DataFrames with similar structures (same columns or same rows) and you want to combine them into a single DataFrame, this is where concatenating shines. The concatenation process can be along a particular axis, either row-wise (axis=0
) or column-wise (axis=1
).
Let’s deep dive into the row-wise concatenation, also known as append.
Row-wise concatenation
The row-wise concatenation is used to concatenate one DataFrame to another along axis=0
. To showcase this operation, two DataFrames, employee_data_1
and employee_data_2
, created with the same structure but different data can be seen here:
employee_data_1 = pd.DataFrame({ 'employee_id': np.arange(1, 6), 'name': ['Alice', 'Bob', 'Charlie', 'David', 'Eva'], 'department': ['HR', 'IT', 'Marketing', 'Finance...