Examples
Describing a numeric Series.

In [1]:
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
In [2]:
s = pd.Series([2, 3, 4])
s.describe()
Out[2]:
count    3.0
mean     3.0
std      1.0
min      2.0
25%      2.5
50%      3.0
75%      3.5
max      4.0
dtype: float64

Describing a categorical Series.

In [3]:
s = pd.Series(['p', 'p', 'q', 'r'])
s.describe()
Out[3]:
count     4
unique    3
top       p
freq      2
dtype: object

Describing a timestamp Series.

In [4]:
s = pd.Series([
  np.datetime64("2012-02-02"),
  np.datetime64("2019-02-02"),
  np.datetime64("2019-02-02")
])
In [5]:
s.describe()
Out[5]:
count                       3
unique                      2
top       2019-02-02 00:00:00
freq                        2
first     2012-02-02 00:00:00
last      2019-02-02 00:00:00
dtype: object