Python | Pandas Series.nunique()

Python is a great language for doing data analysis, primarily because of the fantastic ecosystem of data-centric Python packages. Pandas is one of those packages, and makes importing and analyzing data much easier.

While analyzing the data, many times the user wants to see the unique values in a particular column. Pandas nunique() is used to get a count of unique values.

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Syntax: Series.nunique(dropna=True)

Parameters:
dropna: Exclude NULL value if True



Return Type: Integer – Number of unique values in a column.

Example #1: Using nunique()
In this example, nunique() method is used to get number of all unique values in Team column.

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# importing pandas package
import pandas as pd
  
# making data frame from csv file
data = pd.read_csv("employees.csv")
  
# storing unique value in a variable
unique_value = data["Team"].nunique()
  
# printing value
print(unique_value)

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Output:

The output of number of unique values is returned. 


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Example #2: NULL value Handling

In this example, length of array returned by unique() method is compared to integer returned by nunique() method.













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# importing pandas package 


import pandas as pd 


  


# making data frame from csv file 


data = pd.read_csv("employees.csv") 


  


# storing unique value in a variable 


arr = data["Team"].unique() 


  


# storing unique value in a variable 


unique_value = data["Team"].nunique(dropna = True) 


  


# printing values 


print(len(arr), unique_value) 



















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Output:

The output is not same in both of the cases as dropna parameter is set to True and hence NULL values were excluded while counting unique values.


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