How to compute the standard deviation of a DataFrame with Pandas using Python
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The standard deviation is another one of the most important tool of a Data Scientist.
With the DataFrame.std() method, you can compute the standard deviation of the entire DataFrame or of a specific column.
Here is the code
# To use dataframes
import pandas as pd
# We create a sample dataframe
df = pd.DataFrame({"col1" : [2, 1, 4, 2, 0]})
# We compute and show the standard deviation of a specific dataframe column
print(df["col1"].std())
# We compute and show the standard deviation of the entire dataframe
print(df.std())
Here you are! You now know how to compute the standard deviation of a DataFrame with Pandas using Python.
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