tech.tablesaw.api

Interface CategoricalColumn

All Superinterfaces:

Column

All Known Subinterfaces:

NumberColumn

All Known Implementing Classes:

BooleanColumn, DateColumn, DoubleColumn, StringColumn, TimeColumn

public interface CategoricalColumn
extends Column

A column type that can be summarized, or serve as a grouping variable in cross tabs or other aggregation operations.

The column data is generally discrete, however NumberColumn implements CategoricalColumn so that it can be used to summarize when it contains ints. If you use it to summarize over a large range of floating point numbers, you will likely run out of memory.

Supporting subtypes include: - StringColumn - BooleanColumn - DateColumn, - etc

DateTimeColumn is not included. TimeColumn can be converted to ints without loss of data, so it does implement this interface

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
int[]	asIntArray()
default Set<Integer>	asIntegerSet()
default Table	countByCategory()

Methods inherited from interface tech.tablesaw.columns.Column

append, appendCell, appendCell, appendMissing, asBytes, asDoubleArray, asObjectArray, byteSize, clear, columnWidth, copy, countMissing, countUnique, create, emptyCopy, emptyCopy, first, getDouble, getObject, getString, getUnformattedString, inRange, isEmpty, isMissing, isMissing, isNotMissing, lag, last, lead, name, print, removeMissing, rolling, rowComparator, rows, sampleN, sampleX, setName, size, sortAscending, sortDescending, subset, summarizeIf, summary, title, type, unique, where

Method Detail

countByCategory

default Table countByCategory()

asIntArray

int[] asIntArray()

asIntegerSet

default Set<Integer> asIntegerSet()