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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">🐼🤹‍♂️ pandas trick #83:<br><br>Problem: Your dataset has many
    columns and you want to ensure the correct data types<br><br>Solution:<br>1. Create CSV of column names &amp; dtypes<br>2.
    Read it into a DF<br>3. Convert it to dict<br>4. Use dict to specify dtypes of dataset<br><br>👇 Example 👇<a
            href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Python?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Python</a> <a
            href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/pandastricks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#pandastricks</a> <a
            href="https://t.co/10DeKtc6wj">pic.twitter.com/10DeKtc6wj</a></p>&mdash; Kevin Markham (@justmarkham)
    <a href="https://twitter.com/justmarkham/status/1192794326763474944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 8, 2019</a>
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