How can I normalize the data in a range of columns in my pandas dataframe

Question

Suppose I have a pandas data frame surveyData:

I want to normalize the data in each column by performing:

surveyData_norm = (surveyData - surveyData.mean         


        

Answer 1

I think it's better to use 'sklearn.preprocessing' in this case which can give us much more scaling options. The way of doing that in your case when using StandardScaler would be:

from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler
cols_to_norm = ['Age','Height']
surveyData[cols_to_norm] = StandardScaler().fit_transform(surveyData[cols_to_norm])