Reddine

sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get update
# BLAS → LAPACK → ATLAS → numpy → scipy → Theano
# remove numpy and scipy
sudo apt-get remove python-numpy
sudo apt-get remove python-scipy
# Instalation commands
sudo apt-get install gfortran
sudo apt-get install libopenblas-dev
sudo apt-get install liblapack-dev

Reddine

#List unique values in a DataFrame column
pd.unique(df.column_name.ravel())

#Convert Series datatype to numeric, getting rid of any non-numeric values
df['col'] = df['col'].astype(str).convert_objects(convert_numeric=True)

#Grab DataFrame rows where column has certain values
valuelist = ['value1', 'value2', 'value3']
df = df[df.column.isin(value_list)]