Frequency table for a single variable

Question

One last newbie pandas question for the day: How do I generate a table for a single Series?

For example:

my_series = pandas.Series([1,2,2,3,3,3])
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Answer 1

for frequency distribution of a variable with excessive values you can collapse down the values in classes,

Here I excessive values for employrate variable, and there's no meaning of it's frequency distribution with direct values_count(normalize=True)

                country  employrate alcconsumption
0           Afghanistan   55.700001            .03
1               Albania   11.000000           7.29
2               Algeria   11.000000            .69
3               Andorra         nan          10.17
4                Angola   75.699997           5.57
..                  ...         ...            ...
208             Vietnam   71.000000           3.91
209  West Bank and Gaza   32.000000               
210         Yemen, Rep.   39.000000             .2
211              Zambia   61.000000           3.56
212            Zimbabwe   66.800003           4.96

[213 rows x 3 columns]

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frequency distribution with values_count(normalize=True) with no classification,length of result here is 139 (seems meaningless as a frequency distribution):

print(gm["employrate"].value_counts(sort=False,normalize=True))

50.500000   0.005618
61.500000   0.016854
46.000000   0.011236
64.500000   0.005618
63.500000   0.005618

58.599998   0.005618
63.799999   0.011236
63.200001   0.005618
65.599998   0.005618
68.300003   0.005618
Name: employrate, Length: 139, dtype: float64

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putting classification we put all values with a certain range ie.

0-10 as 1,
11-20 as 2  
21-30 as 3, and so forth.

gm["employrate"]=gm["employrate"].str.strip().dropna()  
gm["employrate"]=pd.to_numeric(gm["employrate"])
gm['employrate'] = np.where(
   (gm['employrate'] <=10) & (gm['employrate'] > 0) , 1, gm['employrate']
   )
gm['employrate'] = np.where(
   (gm['employrate'] <=20) & (gm['employrate'] > 10) , 1, gm['employrate']
   )
gm['employrate'] = np.where(
   (gm['employrate'] <=30) & (gm['employrate'] > 20) , 2, gm['employrate']
   )
gm['employrate'] = np.where(
   (gm['employrate'] <=40) & (gm['employrate'] > 30) , 3, gm['employrate']
   )
gm['employrate'] = np.where(
   (gm['employrate'] <=50) & (gm['employrate'] > 40) , 4, gm['employrate']
   )
gm['employrate'] = np.where(
   (gm['employrate'] <=60) & (gm['employrate'] > 50) , 5, gm['employrate']
   )
gm['employrate'] = np.where(
   (gm['employrate'] <=70) & (gm['employrate'] > 60) , 6, gm['employrate']
   )
gm['employrate'] = np.where(
   (gm['employrate'] <=80) & (gm['employrate'] > 70) , 7, gm['employrate']
   )
gm['employrate'] = np.where(
   (gm['employrate'] <=90) & (gm['employrate'] > 80) , 8, gm['employrate']
   )
gm['employrate'] = np.where(
   (gm['employrate'] <=100) & (gm['employrate'] > 90) , 9, gm['employrate']
   )
print(gm["employrate"].value_counts(sort=False,normalize=True))

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after classification we have a clear frequency distribution. here we can easily see, that 37.64% of countries have employ rate between 51-60% and 11.79% of countries have employ rate between 71-80%

5.000000   0.376404
7.000000   0.117978
4.000000   0.179775
6.000000   0.264045
8.000000   0.033708
3.000000   0.028090
Name: employrate, dtype: float64