Move from Excel to Python with Pandas Transcripts
Chapter: Course conclusion and review
Lecture: DataFrame summary
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In the next chapter, we introduce Panda's and started to talk about the power of pandas and how a pandas data frame is similar to an Excel worksheet.
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We talked about the core commands that you need to use to understand your data frame
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specifically looking at the top and bottom rows using head and tail how much info you can get about your data frame using the Info Command.
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The shape command is very useful for understanding. The number of rows and columns in your data frame described gives you a quick,
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numerical summary of your data frame. The other concept we talked about was selecting rows and columns with Lok,
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and I look using low. You can select all of your rose, a list of rose or slice of rose.
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You can do a similar thing with the comb by selecting all columns, specific columns or a slice of columns.
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And you can use I Lok to specify rows and columns but used numeric values for
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the columns. These concepts are very core to the additional analysis that will be doing