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01 Feb 2023

Posted on:

02 Dec 2021

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Is Python describe() a metadata?

In Python there is a function called describe(), which provides the statistical summary of each column of the dataset, so is the data provided by describe() a kind of Metadata? Thank you so much!

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Posted on:

03 Nov 2022

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I think you are right
In general, some methods/functions and ALL attributes return metadata

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01 Feb 2023

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No that's not metadata but pandas.describe() provides descriptive statistical summaries of the actual data.
Metadata is data about the file e.g. if you loaded in a 'data.csv': the filename, file size, file type, date created would be a subset of the metadata. The moment you have loaded the data into the Pandas DataFrame you are dealing with the actual data

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