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pandas data table representation
Pandas representation of Data
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

.. image:: ../../_static/schemas/01_table_dataframe.svg
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df

To manually store data in a table, create a ``DataFrame``. When using a Python dictionary of lists, the dictionary keys will be used as column headers and
the values in each list as columns of the ``DataFrame``.
the values in each list as columns of the ``DataFrame``.
.. note::

Each DataFrame has an *index*, which uniquely identifies each row.
By default, it appears as the leftmost label in the table.
For more about the index, see :ref:`user_guide/indexing`.


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- The table has 3 columns, each of them with a column label. The column
labels are respectively ``Name``, ``Age`` and ``Sex``.
- The column ``Name`` consists of textual data with each value a
string, the column ``Age`` are numbers and the column ``Sex`` is
string, the column ``Age`` contains numbers and the column ``Sex`` contains
textual data.

In spreadsheet software, the table representation of our data would look
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.. tip::

You can select rows by index using ``df.loc[index]`` or ``df.iloc[position]``.

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