Experiment No.

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Title: Program to get statistical characteristics of dataset using pandas

Theory: A large number of methods collectively compute descriptive statistics and other related
operations on DataFrame. Most of these are aggregations like sum(), mean(), but some of them,
like sumsum(), produce an object of the same size. Generally speaking, these methods take
an axis argument, just like ndarray. {sum, std, ...}, but the axis can be specified by name or
integer
 DataFrame − “index” (axis=0, default), “columns” (axis=1)
Let us create a DataFrame and use this object throughout this assignment for all the operations.
Example
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

#Create a Dictionary of series

d = {'Name':pd.Series(['Tom','James','Ricky','Vin','Steve','Smith','Jack',
'Lee','David','Gasper','Betina','Andres']),
'Age':pd.Series([25,26,25,23,30,29,23,34,40,30,51,46]),
'Rating':pd.Series([4.23,3.24,3.98,2.56,3.20,4.6,3.8,3.78,2.98,4.80,4.10,3.65])
}

#Create a DataFrame
df = pd.DataFrame(d)
print df
Its output is as follows −
Age Name Rating
0 25 Tom 4.23
1 26 James 3.24
2 25 Ricky 3.98
3 23 Vin 2.56
4 30 Steve 3.20
5 29 Smith 4.60
6 23 Jack 3.80
7 34 Lee 3.78
8 40 David 2.98
9 30 Gasper 4.80
10 51 Betina 4.10
11 46 Andres 3.65

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sum()
Returns the sum of the values for the requested axis. By default, axis is index (axis=0).
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

#Create a Dictionary of series

d = {'Name':pd.Series(['Tom','James','Ricky','Vin','Steve','Smith','Jack',
'Lee','David','Gasper','Betina','Andres']),
'Age':pd.Series([25,26,25,23,30,29,23,34,40,30,51,46]),
'Rating':pd.Series([4.23,3.24,3.98,2.56,3.20,4.6,3.8,3.78,2.98,4.80,4.10,3.65])
}

#Create a DataFrame
df = pd.DataFrame(d)
print df.sum()
Its output is as follows −
Age 382
Name TomJamesRickyVinSteveSmithJackLeeDavidGasperBe...
Rating 44.92
dtype: object
Each individual column is added individually (Strings are appended).
axis=1
This syntax will give the output as shown below.
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

#Create a Dictionary of series

d = {'Name':pd.Series(['Tom','James','Ricky','Vin','Steve','Smith','Jack',
'Lee','David','Gasper','Betina','Andres']),
'Age':pd.Series([25,26,25,23,30,29,23,34,40,30,51,46]),
'Rating':pd.Series([4.23,3.24,3.98,2.56,3.20,4.6,3.8,3.78,2.98,4.80,4.10,3.65])
}

#Create a DataFrame
df = pd.DataFrame(d)
print df.sum(1)
Its output is as follows −
0 29.23
1 29.24
2 28.98
3 25.56
4 33.20
5 33.60

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6 26.80
7 37.78
8 42.98
9 34.80
10 55.10
11 49.65
dtype: float64
mean()
Returns the average value
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

#Create a Dictionary of series

d = {'Name':pd.Series(['Tom','James','Ricky','Vin','Steve','Smith','Jack',
'Lee','David','Gasper','Betina','Andres']),
'Age':pd.Series([25,26,25,23,30,29,23,34,40,30,51,46]),
'Rating':pd.Series([4.23,3.24,3.98,2.56,3.20,4.6,3.8,3.78,2.98,4.80,4.10,3.65])
}

#Create a DataFrame
df = pd.DataFrame(d)
print df.mean()
Its output is as follows −
Age 31.833333
Rating 3.743333
dtype: float64
std()
Returns the Bressel standard deviation of the numerical columns.
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

#Create a Dictionary of series

d = {'Name':pd.Series(['Tom','James','Ricky','Vin','Steve','Smith','Jack',
'Lee','David','Gasper','Betina','Andres']),
'Age':pd.Series([25,26,25,23,30,29,23,34,40,30,51,46]),
'Rating':pd.Series([4.23,3.24,3.98,2.56,3.20,4.6,3.8,3.78,2.98,4.80,4.10,3.65])
}

#Create a DataFrame
df = pd.DataFrame(d)
print df.std()
Its output is as follows −
Age 9.232682
Rating 0.661628

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dtype: float64
Functions & Description
Let us now understand the functions under Descriptive Statistics in Python Pandas. The
following table list down the important functions −

Sr.No. Function Description

1 count() Number of non-null observations

2 sum() Sum of values

3 mean() Mean of Values

4 median() Median of Values

5 mode() Mode of values

6 std() Standard Deviation of the Values

7 min() Minimum Value

8 max() Maximum Value

9 abs() Absolute Value

10 prod() Product of Values

11 cumsum() Cumulative Sum

12 cumprod() Cumulative Product

Note − Since DataFrame is a Heterogeneous data structure. Generic operations don’t work with
all functions.
 Functions like sum(), cumsum() work with both numeric and character (or) string data
elements without any error. Though n practice, character aggregations are never used
generally, these functions do not throw any exception.
 Functions like abs(), cumprod() throw exception when the DataFrame contains character
or string data because such operations cannot be performed.
Summarizing Data
The describe() function computes a summary of statistics pertaining to the DataFrame columns.
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

#Create a Dictionary of series

d = {'Name':pd.Series(['Tom','James','Ricky','Vin','Steve','Smith','Jack',
'Lee','David','Gasper','Betina','Andres']),
'Age':pd.Series([25,26,25,23,30,29,23,34,40,30,51,46]),

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 'Rating':pd.Series([4.23,3.24,3.98,2.56,3.20,4.6,3.8,3.78,2.98,4.80,4.10,3.65])
}

#Create a DataFrame
df = pd.DataFrame(d)
print df.describe()
Its output is as follows −
Age Rating
count 12.000000 12.000000
mean 31.833333 3.743333
std 9.232682 0.661628
min 23.000000 2.560000
25% 25.000000 3.230000
50% 29.500000 3.790000
75% 35.500000 4.132500
max 51.000000 4.800000
This function gives the mean, std and IQR values. And, function excludes the character
columns and given summary about numeric columns. 'include' is the argument which is used to
pass necessary information regarding what columns need to be considered for summarizing.
Takes the list of values; by default, 'number'.

 object − Summarizes String columns

 number − Summarizes Numeric columns
 all − Summarizes all columns together (Should not pass it as a list
value) Now, use the following statement in the program and check the output −
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

#Create a Dictionary of series

d = {'Name':pd.Series(['Tom','James','Ricky','Vin','Steve','Smith','Jack',
'Lee','David','Gasper','Betina','Andres']),
'Age':pd.Series([25,26,25,23,30,29,23,34,40,30,51,46]),
'Rating':pd.Series([4.23,3.24,3.98,2.56,3.20,4.6,3.8,3.78,2.98,4.80,4.10,3.65])
}

#Create a DataFrame
df = pd.DataFrame(d)
print df.describe(include=['object'])

Its output is as follows −

Name
count 12
unique 12
top Ricky
freq 1

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 Now, use the following statement and check the output −
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

#Create a Dictionary of series

d = {'Name':pd.Series(['Tom','James','Ricky','Vin','Steve','Smith','Jack',
'Lee','David','Gasper','Betina','Andres']),
'Age':pd.Series([25,26,25,23,30,29,23,34,40,30,51,46]),
'Rating':pd.Series([4.23,3.24,3.98,2.56,3.20,4.6,3.8,3.78,2.98,4.80,4.10,3.65])
}

#Create a DataFrame
df = pd.DataFrame(d)
print df. describe(include='all')
Its output is as follows −
Age Name Rating
count 12.000000 12 12.000000
uniq
ue
NaN
12
NaN
top
NaN
Rick
y
NaN
freq
NaN
1
NaN
mean 31.833333 NaN 3.743333
std 9.232682 NaN 0.661628
min 23.000000 NaN 2.560000
25% 25.000000 NaN 3.230000
50% 29.500000 NaN 3.790000
75% 35.500000 NaN 4.132500
max 51.000000 NaN 4.800000

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Observations: Thus students are able to write a program to get statistical
characteristics of dataset using pandas.