skbio.metadata.MetadataColumn.to_dataframe

MetadataColumn.to_dataframe(encode_missing=False)

Create a pandas dataframe from the metadata column.

The dataframe will contain exactly one column. The dataframe’s index name (Index.name) will match this metadata column’s id_header, and the index will contain this metadata column’s IDs. The dataframe’s column name will match this metadata column’s name.

Parameters:

encode_missingbool, optional

Whether to convert missing values (NaNs) back into their original vocabulary (strings) if a missing scheme was used.

Returns:

pandas.DataFrame

Dataframe constructed from the metadata column.

See also

to_series