AI engineering glossary · NumPy pandas visualization
What is describe?
describe (also called summary statistics): A pandas method that prints summary statistics for each numeric column: count, mean, standard deviation, minimum, quartiles and maximum. It gives a quick sense of scale, spread and possible outliers when first exploring a dataset.
describe: an example
df.describe() might show an age column with mean 34, minimum 18 and maximum 240, exposing a data-entry error.
Related terms
- Exploratory data analysis
- value_counts
- Outlier
- DataFrame
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Where you learn it
describe is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.