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transformations:removeemptycolumns

REMOVE EMPTY COLUMNS

Category: Transform / Advanced


Description

This action removes columns with little or no meaningful information. It has three modes:

  • Remove columns where all values are empty values
  • Remove columns where all values are empty or whitespace
  • Remove columns where all values are the same


Use cases

  • The action can be helpful, for instance, after importing spreadsheets with sparsely located tables, or where table position changes from a file to file
  • It can also be used to remove columns that only contain null replacement values, such as "NULL".


Action settings

SettingDescription
All values are empty valuesRemoves columns that only contain empty values (nulls)
All values are empty or whitespaceRemoves columns that contain either empty or whitespace values (e.g. values with only spaces, line breaks, or tabs but no visible characters).
All values are the sameRemoves columns where all values are the same (e.g. when a column contains only text value "N/A" in all rows).


Remarks

If the dataset has columns but no data (i.e. no rows), the action does nothing.


Examples

Example: Remove empty columns.

Source dataset:

Column 1 Product name Column 2 Qty Column 3 Price
Big thing 1 1000
Medium thing 10 100
Small thing 100 10


Action parameters:

All values are empty values.


Result table:

Product name Qty Price
Big thing 1 1000
Medium thing 10 100
Small thing 100 10


Community examples


See also

transformations/removeemptycolumns.txt · Last modified: 2022/11/12 12:48 by dmitry

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