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Created August 5, 2017 11:51 — forked from why-not/gist:4582705
Pandas recipe. I find pandas indexing counter intuitive, perhaps my intuitions were shaped by many years in the imperative world. I am collecting some recipes to do things quickly in pandas & to jog my memory.
"""quick way to create a data frame to try things out"""
df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(5, 4), columns=['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'])
df['A'] """ will bring out a col """ df.ix[0] """will bring out a row, #0 in this case"""
"""to get an array from a data frame or a series use values, note it is not a function here, so no parans ()"""
point = df_allpoints[df_allpoints['names'] == given_point] # extract one point row.
point = point['desc'].values[0] # get its descriptor in array form.