pandas Data Structures - Series

A Series is a one-dimensional array-like object containing a sequence of values (of
similar types to NumPy types) and an associated array of data labels, called its index.

In [11]: obj = pd.Series([4, 7, -5, 3])
In [12]: obj
Out[12]:
0 4
1 7
2 -5
3 3
dtype: int64

In [13]: obj.values
Out[13]: array([ 4, 7, -5, 3])
In [14]: obj.index # like range(4)
Out[14]: RangeIndex(start=0, stop=4, step=1)

In [15]: obj2 = pd.Series([4, 7, -5, 3], index=['d', 'b', 'a', 'c'])
In [16]: obj2
Out[16]:
d 4
b 7
a -5
c 3
dtype: int64

In [20]: obj2[['c', 'a', 'd']]
Out[20]:
c 3
a -5
d 6
dtype: int64

In [21]: obj2[obj2 > 0]
Out[21]:
d 6
b 7
c 3
dtype: int64

In [26]: sdata = {'Ohio': 35000, 'Texas': 71000, 'Oregon': 16000, 'Utah': 5000}
In [27]: obj3 = pd.Series(sdata)
In [28]: obj3
Out[28]:
Ohio 35000
Oregon 16000
Texas 71000
Utah 5000
dtype: int64

In [29]: states = ['California', 'Ohio', 'Oregon', 'Texas']
In [30]: obj4 = pd.Series(sdata, index=states)
In [31]: obj4
Out[31]:
California NaN
Ohio 35000.0
Oregon 16000.0
Texas 71000.0
dtype: float64

Another way to think about a Series is as a fixed-length, ordered dict, as it is a map‐
ping of index values to data values. It can be used in many contexts where you might
use a dict.

In [35]: obj3
Out[35]:
Ohio 35000
Oregon 16000
Texas 71000
Utah 5000
dtype: int64
In [36]: obj4
Out[36]:
California NaN
Ohio 35000.0
Oregon 16000.0
Texas 71000.0
dtype: float64
In [37]: obj3 + obj4
Out[37]:
California NaN
Ohio 70000.0
Oregon 32000.0
Texas 142000.0
Utah NaN
dtype: float64

In [38]: obj4.name = 'population'
In [39]: obj4.index.name = 'state'
In [40]: obj4
Out[40]:
state
California NaN
Ohio 35000.0
Oregon 16000.0
Texas 71000.0
Name: population, dtype: float64

In [41]: obj
Out[41]:
0 4
1 7
2 -5
3 3
dtype: int64
In [42]: obj.index = ['Bob', 'Steve', 'Jeff', 'Ryan']
In [43]: obj
Out[43]:
Bob 4
Steve 7
Jeff -5
Ryan 3
dtype: int64