# DataFrames: convert column data type

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dataframes-convert-column-data-type/35522>\
**Category:** Data\
**Tags:** type, dataframes, convert\
**Created:** [March 4, 2020, 3:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dataframes-convert-column-data-type/35522 "2020-03-04T15:03:29Z")\
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A more general way to do this is (assuming the column is called `x`)

```julia
df[!,:x] = convert.(Bool,df[!,:x])

```

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