Head and Tail of DataFrame in Pandas

To view a small sample of a Series or DataFrame object, use the head() and tail() methods. The default number of elements to display is five, but you may pass a custom number.

head() returns the first n rows(observe the index values). The default number of elements to display is five, but you may pass a custom number.

tail() returns the last n rows(observe the index values). The default number of elements to display is five, but you may pass a custom number.

Lets start with importing the pandas and numpy

import pandas as pd

import numpy as np

Create a series with random numbers

long_series = pd.Series(np.random.randn(1000))

The first five rows of the data series:

long_series.head()

Output:

0    0.580156
1    0.469914
2   -0.744791
3   -2.381032
4    0.954909

The last three rows of the data series:

long_series.tail(3)

997    0.294750
998   -1.108673
999    0.013724