You have a date column and you think the holidays might affect the target of your data. Is there an easy way to extract the holidays from the date? Yes, that is when holidays package comes in handy.

Holidays package provides a dictionary of holidays for different countries. The code below is to confirm whether 2020-07-04 is a US holiday and extract the name of the holiday.

The great thing about this package is that you can write the date in whatever way you want and the package is still able to detect which date you are talking about.

You can also add more holidays if you think that the library is lacking some holidays.

Try this out if you are looking for something similar.