Pandas Merging 101

This post aims to give readers a primer on SQL-flavored merging with Pandas, how to use it, and when not to use it. In particular, here’s what this post will go through: The basics – types of joins (LEFT, RIGHT, OUTER, INNER) merging with different column names merging with multiple columns avoiding duplicate merge key … Read more

Algorithm for taking elements from an in[] array and concatenating them [closed]

Concatenate them together as a string and then parse the string as an int: StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); for (int i : array1) { sb.append(i); } int concatenated = Integer.parseInt(sb.toString()); An alternative (and, to my mind, more cumbersome) approach is to initialize a sum to 0 and then add each array element after multiplying … Read more