AI engineering glossary · NumPy pandas visualization

What is array transpose?

Array transpose: Swapping the axes of an array so that rows become columns and columns become rows. In NumPy it is available as the .T attribute and does not move data; it just returns a view with the axes reordered. It is used constantly to align shapes for calculations.

Level: beginnerTopic: NumPy pandas visualization

Array transpose: an example

A (2, 3) array a has a.T of shape (3, 2), so element a[0, 2] becomes a.T[2, 0].

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