Get the mean and median from a Pandas column in Python


import modules

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

create dummy dataframe

raw_data = {'name': ['Willard Morris', 'Al Jennings', 'Omar Mullins', 'Spencer McDaniel'],
        'age': [20, 19, 22, 21],
        'favorite_color': ['blue', 'blue', 'yellow', "green"],
        'grade': [88, 92, 95, 70]}
df = pd.DataFrame(raw_data, index = ['Willard Morris', 'Al Jennings', 'Omar Mullins', 'Spencer McDaniel'])
df
age favorite_color grade name
Willard Morris 20 blue 88 Willard Morris
Al Jennings 19 blue 92 Al Jennings
Omar Mullins 22 yellow 95 Omar Mullins
Spencer McDaniel 21 green 70 Spencer McDaniel

return the average/mean from a Pandas column

df['grade'].mean()
86.25

return the median from a Pandas column

df['grade'].median()
90.0

return descriptive statistics from Pandas dataframe

#Aside from the mean/median, you may be interested in general descriptive statistics of your dataframe
#--'describe' is a handy function for this
df.describe()
age grade
count 4.000000 4.000000
mean 20.500000 86.250000
std 1.290994 11.206397
min 19.000000 70.000000
25% 19.750000 83.500000
50% 20.500000 90.000000
75% 21.250000 92.750000
max 22.000000 95.000000