dask.dataframe.Series.cat.as_unordered

dask.dataframe.Series.cat.as_unordered

dataframe.Series.cat.as_unordered(*args, **kwargs)

Set the Categorical to be unordered.

This docstring was copied from pandas.core.arrays.categorical.CategoricalAccessor.as_unordered.

Some inconsistencies with the Dask version may exist.

Returns
Categorical

Unordered Categorical.

Examples

For pandas.Series:

>>> raw_cat = pd.Categorical(['a', 'b', 'c', 'a'], ordered=True)  
>>> ser = pd.Series(raw_cat)  
>>> ser.cat.ordered  
True
>>> ser = ser.cat.as_unordered()  
>>> ser.cat.ordered  
False

For pandas.CategoricalIndex:

>>> ci = pd.CategoricalIndex(['a', 'b', 'c', 'a'], ordered=True)  
>>> ci.ordered  
True
>>> ci = ci.as_unordered()  
>>> ci.ordered  
False

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