Pandas styling Exercises: Write a Pandas program to make a gradient color mapping on a specified column

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12. Gradient Color Mapping on a Specified Column

Create a dataframe of ten rows, four columns with random values. Write a Pandas program to make a gradient color mapping on a specified column.

Sample Solution :

Python Code :

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
np.random.seed(24)
df = pd.DataFrame({'A': np.linspace(1, 10, 10)})
df = pd.concat([df, pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(10, 4), columns=list('BCDE'))],
               axis=1)
print("Original array:")
print(df)
print("\nDataframe - Gradient color:")
df.style.background_gradient(subset=['C'])

Original array:

Original array:
      A         B         C         D         E
0   1.0  1.329212 -0.770033 -0.316280 -0.990810
1   2.0 -1.070816 -1.438713  0.564417  0.295722
2   3.0 -1.626404  0.219565  0.678805  1.889273
3   4.0  0.961538  0.104011 -0.481165  0.850229
4   5.0  1.453425  1.057737  0.165562  0.515018
5   6.0 -1.336936  0.562861  1.392855 -0.063328
6   7.0  0.121668  1.207603 -0.002040  1.627796
7   8.0  0.354493  1.037528 -0.385684  0.519818
8   9.0  1.686583 -1.325963  1.428984 -2.089354
9  10.0 -0.129820  0.631523 -0.586538  0.290720

Dataframe - Gradient color:

Sample Output:

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For more Practice: Solve these Related Problems:

• Write a Pandas program to apply a gradient color mapping to a specific column in a dataframe using background_gradient().
• Write a Pandas program to highlight one column with a color gradient that transitions based on the cell values.
• Write a Pandas program to generate a gradient color effect on a selected column and compare it with static styling on others.
• Write a Pandas program to set a gradient color scale on a designated column and test different color maps.

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