"""
A set of function aimed at making it easy
to convert other time series datasets to our
format for transfer learning purposes
"""
[docs]
def make_column_names(df):
num_cols = len(list(df))
# generate range of ints for suffixes
# with length exactly half that of num_cols;
# if num_cols is even, truncate concatenated list later
# to get to original list length
column_arr = []
for i in range(0, num_cols):
column_arr.append("solar_" + str(i))
# ensure the length of the new columns list is equal to the length of df's columns
df.columns = column_arr
return df