1 Head and Tail

To view a small sample of a Series or DataFrame object, use the head() and tail() methods. The default number of elements to display is five, but you may pass a custom number.

In [1]: long_series = pd.Series(np.random.randn(1000))

In [2]: long_series.head()
Out[2]: 
0   -0.305384
1   -0.479195
2    0.095031
3   -0.270099
4   -0.707140
dtype: float64

In [3]: long_series.tail(3)
Out[3]: 
997    0.588446
998    0.026465
999   -1.728222
dtype: float64