December 2018
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682 pages
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English
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How to do it...
- Read in the college dataset with the institution name as the index and then select every other row from index 10 to 20:
>>> college = pd.read_csv('data/college.csv', index_col='INSTNM')>>> college[10:20:2]
- This same slicing exists with Series:
>>> city = college['CITY']>>> city[10:20:2]INSTNM Birmingham Southern College Birmingham Concordia College Alabama Selma Enterprise State Community College Enterprise Faulkner University Montgomery New Beginning College of Cosmetology Albertville Name: CITY, dtype: object
- Both Series and DataFrames can slice by label as well with just the indexing operator:
>>> start = 'Mesa ...