NOTICE

The upcoming release of Featuretools 1.0.0 contains several breaking changes. Users are encouraged to test this version prior to release by installing from GitHub:

pip install https://github.com/alteryx/featuretools/archive/woodwork-integration.zip

For details on migrating to the new version, refer to Transitioning to Featuretools Version 1.0. Please report any issues in the Featuretools GitHub repo or by messaging in Alteryx Open Source Slack.


featuretools.selection.remove_single_value_features

featuretools.selection.remove_single_value_features(feature_matrix, features=None, count_nan_as_value=False)[source]

Removes columns in feature matrix where all the values are the same.

Parameters
  • feature_matrix (pd.DataFrame) – DataFrame whose columns are feature names and rows are instances.

  • features (list[featuretools.FeatureBase] or list[str], optional) – List of features to select.

  • count_nan_as_value – If True, missing values will be counted as their own unique value. If set to False, a feature that has one unique value and all other data missing will be removed from the feature matrix. Defaults to False.