Move from Excel to Python with Pandas Transcripts
Chapter: Intro to Pandas
Lecture: Concept: Understanding your dataframe
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After creating your data frame in pandas, you want to use several commands to understand how it's structured.
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If we have a data frame called DF and want to see the top of bottom rows, df.head() and df.tail() will show the bottom and top rows.
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The info function will give more details on the columns, including memory usage and data types.
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Understanding the number of rows and columns is important as well, so the DF shape function will tell us that,
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and finally, calling describe on a data frame will give us a numerical summary of the values in that data frame.