Python is a great language for doing data analysis, primarily because of the fantastic ecosystem of data-centric Python packages. Pandas is one of those packages and makes importing and analyzing data much easier.
Pandas head() method is used to return top n (5 by default) rows of a data frame or series.
Syntax: Dataframe.head(n=5)
Parameters:
n: integer value, number of rows to be returnedReturn type: Dataframe with top n rows
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In the following examples, the data frame used contains data of some NBA players. The image of data frame before any operations is attached below.
Example #1:
In this example, top 5 rows of data frame are returned and stored in a new variable. No parameter is passed to .head() method since by default it is 5.
# importing pandas moduleimport pandas as pd # making data frame # calling head() method # storing in new variabledata_top = data.head() # displaydata_top |
Output:
As shown in the output image, it can be seen that the index of returned rows is ranging from 0 to 4. Hence, top 5 rows were returned.
Example #2: Calling on Series with n parameter()
In this example, the .head() method is called on series with custom input of n parameter to return top 9 rows of the series.
# importing pandas moduleimport pandas as pd # making data frame # number of rows to returnn = 9 # creating seriesseries = data["Name"] # returning top n rowstop = series.head(n = n) # displaytop |
Output:
As shown in the output image, top 9 rows ranging from 0 to 8th index position were returned.
