Python TypeError: cannot convert the series to when trying to do math on dataframe

Question

I have a data frame that looks something like this:

defaultdict(, {\'XYF\':             TimeUS           GyrX           GyrY                    


        

Answer 1

Seems your initial data contains strings and not numbers. It would probably be best to ensure that the data is already of the required type up front.

However, you can convert strings to numbers like this:

pd.Series(['123', '42']).astype(float)

instead of float(series)