Count number of non-NaN entries in every column of Dataframe

Question

I have a really big DataFrame and I was wondering if there was short (one or two liner) way to get the a count of non-NaN entries in a DataFrame. I don't want to do this one column at a time as I have close to 1000 columns.

df1 = pd.DataFrame([(1,2,None),(None,4,None),(5,None,7),(5,None,None)], 
                    columns=['a','b','d'], index = ['A', 'B','C','D'])

    a   b   d
A   1   2 NaN
B NaN   4 NaN
C   5 NaN   7
D   5 NaN NaN

Output:

a: 3
b: 2
d: 1

Answer 1

The count() method returns the number of non-NaN values in each column:

>>> df1.count()
a    3
b    2
d    1
dtype: int64

Similarly, count(axis=1) returns the number of non-NaN values in each row.