From 31355128248f6d915fb52ed10e83899a592de263 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Phillip Cloud <417981+cpcloud@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2025 06:59:38 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] docs(campaign-finance-blog-post): use nullif

---
 docs/posts/campaign-finance/index.qmd | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/posts/campaign-finance/index.qmd b/docs/posts/campaign-finance/index.qmd
index 7a623f93cc5e..32251103bfcd 100644
--- a/docs/posts/campaign-finance/index.qmd
+++ b/docs/posts/campaign-finance/index.qmd
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ from ibis.expr.types import StringValue, DateValue
 
 
 def mmddyyyy_to_date(val: StringValue) -> DateValue:
-    return val.cast(str).lpad(8, "0").to_timestamp("%m%d%Y").date()
+    return val.cast(str).lpad(8, "0").nullif("").to_timestamp("%m%d%Y").date()
 
 
 cleaned = cleaned.mutate(date=mmddyyyy_to_date(_.TRANSACTION_DT)).drop("TRANSACTION_DT")