Is there a way to widen the display of output in either interactive or script-execution mode?
Specifically, I am using the describe() function on a pand
You can use print df.describe().to_string() to force it to show the whole table. (You can use to_string() like this for any DataFrame. The result of describe is just a DataFrame itself.)
The 8 is the number of rows in the DataFrame holding the "description" (because describe computes 8 statistics, min, max, mean, etc.).