pandas_list_unique_values_in_column.ipynb

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     "source": [
      "# List Unique Values In A Pandas Column\n",
      "\n",
      "This snippit was written by [Chris R. Albon](http://www.chrisralbon.com/) and is part of his collection of [well-documented Python snippits](https://github.com/chrisalbon/code_py). All code is written in Python 3 in iPython notebook and offered under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/\"><img alt=\"Creative Commons License)."
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     "metadata": {},
     "source": [
      "## Preliminaries"
     ]
    },
    {
     "cell_type": "code",
     "collapsed": false,
     "input": [
      "# Import modules\n",
      "import pandas as pd\n",
      "\n",
      "# Set ipython's max row display\n",
      "pd.set_option('display.max_row', 1000)\n",
      "\n",
      "# Set iPython's max column width to 50\n",
      "pd.set_option('display.max_columns', 50)"
     ],
     "language": "python",
     "metadata": {},
     "outputs": [],
     "prompt_number": 6
    },
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     "cell_type": "markdown",
     "metadata": {},
     "source": [
      "## Create an example dataframe"
     ]
    },
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     "cell_type": "code",
     "collapsed": false,
     "input": [
      "# Create an example dataframe\n",
      "data = {'name': ['Jason', 'Molly', 'Tina', 'Jake', 'Amy'], \n",
      "        'year': [2012, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2014], \n",
      "        'reports': [4, 24, 31, 2, 3]}\n",
      "df = pd.DataFrame(data, index = ['Cochice', 'Pima', 'Santa Cruz', 'Maricopa', 'Yuma'])\n",
      "df"
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        "<div style=\"max-height:1000px;max-width:1500px;overflow:auto;\">\n",
        "<table border=\"1\" class=\"dataframe\">\n",
        "  <thead>\n",
        "    <tr style=\"text-align: right;\">\n",
        "      <th></th>\n",
        "      <th>name</th>\n",
        "      <th>reports</th>\n",
        "      <th>year</th>\n",
        "    </tr>\n",
        "  </thead>\n",
        "  <tbody>\n",
        "    <tr>\n",
        "      <th>Cochice</th>\n",
        "      <td> Jason</td>\n",
        "      <td>  4</td>\n",
        "      <td> 2012</td>\n",
        "    </tr>\n",
        "    <tr>\n",
        "      <th>Pima</th>\n",
        "      <td> Molly</td>\n",
        "      <td> 24</td>\n",
        "      <td> 2012</td>\n",
        "    </tr>\n",
        "    <tr>\n",
        "      <th>Santa Cruz</th>\n",
        "      <td>  Tina</td>\n",
        "      <td> 31</td>\n",
        "      <td> 2013</td>\n",
        "    </tr>\n",
        "    <tr>\n",
        "      <th>Maricopa</th>\n",
        "      <td>  Jake</td>\n",
        "      <td>  2</td>\n",
        "      <td> 2014</td>\n",
        "    </tr>\n",
        "    <tr>\n",
        "      <th>Yuma</th>\n",
        "      <td>   Amy</td>\n",
        "      <td>  3</td>\n",
        "      <td> 2014</td>\n",
        "    </tr>\n",
        "  </tbody>\n",
        "</table>\n",
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       "text": [
        "             name  reports  year\n",
        "Cochice     Jason        4  2012\n",
        "Pima        Molly       24  2012\n",
        "Santa Cruz   Tina       31  2013\n",
        "Maricopa     Jake        2  2014\n",
        "Yuma          Amy        3  2014"
       ]
      }
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     "prompt_number": 7
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    {
     "cell_type": "markdown",
     "metadata": {},
     "source": [
      "## List unique values"
     ]
    },
    {
     "cell_type": "code",
     "collapsed": false,
     "input": [
      "#List unique values in the df['name'] column\n",
      "pd.unique(df.name.ravel())"
     ],
     "language": "python",
     "metadata": {},
     "outputs": [
      {
       "metadata": {},
       "output_type": "pyout",
       "prompt_number": 8,
       "text": [
        "array(['Jason', 'Molly', 'Tina', 'Jake', 'Amy'], dtype=object)"
       ]
      }
     ],
     "prompt_number": 8
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