DataFrame

Noun · Development

Definitions

  1. A two-dimensional, labeled data structure with columns of potentially different types, analogous to a spreadsheet or SQL table. The pandas DataFrame in Python is the workhorse of data analysis. R's data.frame and Polars' DataFrame serve similar roles.

    In plain English: A table of data in code, like a spreadsheet with rows and named columns, used by data scientists to analyze and manipulate data.

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