Commands frame/entropy

Calculate the Shannon entropy of a column.

POST /v1/commands/

GET /v1/commands/:id

Request

Route

POST /v1/commands/

Body

name:

frame/entropy

arguments:

frame : Frame

<Missing Description>

data_column : unicode

The column whose entropy is to be calculated.

weights_column : unicode (default=None)

The column that provides weights (frequencies) for the entropy calculation. Must contain numerical data. Default is using uniform weights of 1 for all items.

Headers

Authorization: test_api_key_1
Content-type: application/json

Description

The data column is weighted via the weights column. All data elements of weight <= 0 are excluded from the calculation, as are all data elements whose weight is NaN or infinite. If there are no data elements with a finite weight greater than 0, the entropy is zero.

Response

Status

200 OK

Body

Returns information about the command. See the Response Body for Get Command here below. It is the same.

GET /v1/commands/:id

Request

Route

GET /v1/commands/18

Body

(None)

Headers

Authorization: test_api_key_1
Content-type: application/json

Response

Status

200 OK

Body

float64

Entropy.