Pandas DataFrame skew() Method

Return the skew of each column:

import pandas as pd

data = [[10, 18, 11], [13, 15, 8], [9, 20, 3]]

df = pd.DataFrame(data)

print(df.skew())

Definition and Usage

The skew() method calculates the skew for each column.

By specifying the column axis (axis='columns'), the skew() method searches column-wise and returns the skew of each row.

dataframe.skew(axis, skipna, level, numeric_only, kwargs)

The axis, skipna, level, numeric_only, parameters are keyword arguments.

Parameter	Value	Description
axis	`0 1 'index' 'columns'`	Optional, Which axis to check, default 0.
skip_na	`True False`	Optional, default True. Set to False if the result should NOT skip NULL values
level	Number level name	Optional, default None. Specifies which level ( in a hierarchical multi index) to check along
numeric_only	`None True False`	Optional. Specifies whether to only check numeric values. Default None
kwargs		Optional, keyword arguments. These arguments has no effect, but could be accepted by a NumPy function

A Series with the skew values.

If the level argument is specified, this method will return a DataFrame object.

This function does NOT make changes to the original DataFrame object.