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featuretools.primitives.Diff

class featuretools.primitives.Diff[source]

Compute the difference between the value in a list and the previous value in that list.

Description:

Given a list of values, compute the difference from the previous item in the list. The result for the first element of the list will always be NaN. If the values are datetimes, the output will be a timedelta.

Examples

>>> diff = Diff()
>>> values = [1, 10, 3, 4, 15]
>>> diff(values).tolist()
[nan, 9.0, -7.0, 1.0, 11.0]
__init__()

Initialize self. See help(type(self)) for accurate signature.

Methods

__init__()

Initialize self.

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

compatibility

default_value

description_template

input_types

max_stack_depth

name

number_output_features

uses_calc_time

uses_full_entity