pandas provides the .head() and .tail() methods to examine the first (head) or last (tail) few rows in a Series. By default, these return the first or last five rows, but this can be changed using the n parameter.
Let's examine the usage given the following Series:
The following retrieves the first five rows:
The number of items can be changed using the n parameter (or just by specifying the number):
.tail() returns the last five rows:
It works similarly when specifying a number other than 5:
The .take() method returns the rows in a series at the specified integer position: