featuretools.primitives.MeanCharactersPerWord

class featuretools.primitives.MeanCharactersPerWord

Determines the mean number of characters per word.

Description:

Given list of strings, determine the mean number of characters per word in each string. A word is defined as a series of any characters not separated by white space. Punctuation is removed before counting. If a string is empty or NaN, return NaN.

Examples

>>> x = ['This is a test file', 'This is second line', 'third line $1,000']
>>> mean_characters_per_word = MeanCharactersPerWord()
>>> mean_characters_per_word(x).tolist()
[3.0, 4.0, 5.0]

__init__()

Methods

__init__()
flatten_nested_input_types(input_types)	Flattens nested column schema inputs into a single list.
generate_name(base_feature_names)
generate_names(base_feature_names)
get_args_string()
get_arguments()
get_description(input_column_descriptions[, ...])
get_filepath(filename)
get_function()

Attributes

base_of
base_of_exclude
commutative
default_value	Default value this feature returns if no data found.
description_template
input_types	woodwork.ColumnSchema types of inputs
max_stack_depth
name	Name of the primitive
number_output_features	Number of columns in feature matrix associated with this feature
return_type	ColumnSchema type of return
stack_on
stack_on_exclude
stack_on_self
uses_calc_time
uses_full_dataframe