The pandas Series

The pandas Series is the base data structure of pandas. A series is similar to a NumPy array, but it differs by having an index, which allows for much richer lookup of items instead of just a zero-based array index value.

The following creates a series from a Python list.:

The output consists of two columns of information. The first is the index and the second is the data in the Series. Each row of the output represents the index label (in the first column) and then the value associated with that label.

Because this Series was created without specifying an index (something we will do next), pandas automatically creates an ...

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