Introduction to pandas Series
In Chapter 5, Data Selection – DataFrames, we introduced several ways you can select data from pandas DataFrames. While a pandas Series can be thought of as a single column of a pandas DataFrame, it is a separate data structure. In this chapter, we are going to learn how to select data from a Series in detail. The key methods, such as .loc[] and .iloc[], will still apply to a one-dimensional Series, as well as some of the more advanced methods such as Boolean indexing and extended indexing. Now that you have mastered the methods you can apply to DataFrames, learning about Series will be very similar and intuitive. Toward the end of this chapter, we will spend some time understanding the differences between pandas and base Python regarding selecting data. This will reinforce some of the ideas and methods you have learned about. Conceptually, the same ideas we used to select elements from a DataFrame can be used to select elements from a Series....
