How to check if any value is NaN in a Pandas DataFrame?

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2022-05-25

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pandas.isnull(obj) Method

The isnull() method returns a True or False value. Where, True means that there is some missing data and False means that the data is not null. True and False are treated as 1 and 0 respectively.

pandas.isnull().sum().sum() Method

The sum() method returns the count of True values generated from the isnull() method.

Here, you have to use the sum() method twice to count the NaN values in the entire dataset. First, it will count the NaN values in each column and the second time it will add all the NaN values from all the columns.

To work with MultiIndex in Python Pandas, we need to import the pandas library. Below is the syntax,

import pandas as pd

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Let us understand with the help of an example.

# Importing pandas package
import pandas as pd

# To create NaN values, you must import numpy package, 
# then you will use numpy.NaN to create NaN values
import NumPy as np

# Creating a dictionary with some NaN values
d = {
    "Name":['Payal','Mukti','Neelam','Shailendra'],
    "Age":[20,30,np.NaN,26],
    "Gender":['Male',np.NaN,np.NaN,'Female'],
    "Profession":['Doctor','Teacher','Singer',np.NaN]
}

# Now, Create DataFrame
df=pd.DataFrame(d)

# Printing the original DataFrame
print("Original DataFrame:\n")
print(df,"\n\n")

# Counting NaN values
NAN=df.isnull().sum().sum()

# Now, Printing the Number of NaN values
print("Total NaN values:")
print(NAN)

Output:

check if any value is NaN in a Pandas DataFrame