Pandas 'describe' is not returning summary of all columns

Question

I am running \'describe()\' on a dataframe and getting summaries of only int columns (pandas 14.0).

The documentation says that for object columns frequency of most

Answer 1

In addition to DataFrame.describe(include = 'all') one can also use Series.value_counts() for each categorical column:

In[1]:

df = pd.DataFrame({'$a':['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'a'], '$b': np.arange(5)})
df['$a'].value_counts()

Out[1]:
$a
a    2
d    1
b    1
c    1