Change Value of a Dataframe Column Based on a Filter

Question

I have a Dataframe that consists of 2 columns:

1. "Time Spent on website"
2. "Dollars spent on the website"

I want to perform some classification analysis on this dataset and I only care whether a user made a purchase or not. So I want to run through the "Dollars spent on the website" column and transform the value to "1" if the user spent over $0.00 and have the value be "0" if the user spent nothing.

What is the proper way to do this with a pandas dataframe?

Answer 1

df['purchase'] = 0
df.loc[df['dollars_spent'] > 0, 'purchase'] = 1

or

df['purchase'] = df['dollars_spent'].apply(lambda x: 1 if x > 0 else 0)