How do I convert dates in a Pandas data frame to a 'date' data type?

Question

I have a Pandas data frame, one of the column contains date strings in the format YYYY-MM-DD

For e.g. \'2013-10-28\'

At the moment th

Answer 1

Try to convert one of the rows into timestamp using the pd.to_datetime function and then use .map to map the formular to the entire column