Project 13: Job Posting Date Parser
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Objective
pd.to_datetime() converts a column of date strings into real datetime values, enabling date-based sorting and filtering.
Task: convert a posted column of date strings to datetime, then print the DataFrame and the column's new dtype.
index.py
import pandas as pd
jobs = pd.DataFrame({'posted': ['2024/01/15', '2024/02/20']})
jobs['posted'] = pd.to_datetime(jobs['posted'])
print(jobs)
print(jobs['posted'].dtype)
* Hint: Correct characters turn green, incorrect ones turn red.
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