# Import modules
import pandas as pd
# Set ipython's max row display
pd.set_option('display.max_row', 1000)
# Set iPython's max column width to 50
pd.set_option('display.max_columns', 50)
# Create an example dataframe
data = {'name': ['Jason', 'Molly', 'Tina', 'Jake', 'Amy'],
'year': [2012, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2014],
'reports': [4, 24, 31, 2, 3]}
df = pd.DataFrame(data, index = ['Cochice', 'Pima', 'Santa Cruz', 'Maricopa', 'Yuma'])
df
name | reports | year | |
---|---|---|---|
Cochice | Jason | 4 | 2012 |
Pima | Molly | 24 | 2012 |
Santa Cruz | Tina | 31 | 2013 |
Maricopa | Jake | 2 | 2014 |
Yuma | Amy | 3 | 2014 |
#List unique values in the df['name'] column
pd.unique(df.name.ravel())
array(['Jason', 'Molly', 'Tina', 'Jake', 'Amy'], dtype=object)