Introduction to GroupBy Methods

Using Pandas to Perform GroupBy Operations

Sadrach Pierre, Ph.D.
Towards AI
Published in
9 min readJul 26, 2022

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In data analysis, a group by operation separates data rows into groups based on the values in a single column or multiple columns. It is the most frequently used operation for generating aggregate statistics. Within-group statistics is important because it can give insight into differences across groups. For example, suppose we have…

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