Track 14 · Lesson 3 of 12
pandas Series
Use a pandas Series — a labelled column of values — for vectorised calculations, counting categories and quick summaries.
You will be able to
- Create a Series from a list or dictionary and read its index, values and dtype
- Access values by label and by position
- Explain how pandas aligns two Series by label in arithmetic
- Count categories with value_counts and summarise numbers with describe
- Handle missing values (NaN) in counts and averages
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