Get the mean and median from a Pandas column in Python

import modules

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

create dummy dataframe

raw_data = {'name': ['Willard Morris', 'Al Jennings', 'Omar Mullins', 'Spencer McDaniel'],
'age': [20, 19, 22, 21],
'favorite_color': ['blue', 'blue', 'yellow', "green"],
'grade': [88, 92, 95, 70]}
df = pd.DataFrame(raw_data, index = ['Willard Morris', 'Al Jennings', 'Omar Mullins', 'Spencer McDaniel'])
df

return the average/mean from a Pandas column

df['grade'].mean()

86.25

return the median from a Pandas column

df['grade'].median()

90.0

return descriptive statistics from Pandas dataframe

#Aside from the mean/median, you may be interested in general descriptive statistics of your dataframe
#--'describe' is a handy function for this
df.describe()