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Describe Function In Pandas
Purpose
Example
import pandas as pd
# Create a dictionary
dict = {'company': [
'Google',
'Microsoft',
'Apple',
'Google',
'Microsoft',
'Apple',
], 'year': [
2017,
2017,
2017,
2018,
2018,
2018,
], 'Profit': [
20000,
40000,
60000,
80000,
70000,
50000,
]}
# Create a dataframe
df = pd.DataFrame(dict, index=[
0,
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
])
# percentile list
perc = [.20, .40, .60, .80]
# calling describe method
desc = df.describe(percentiles=perc)
# display
desc
Output
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