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Expand Up @@ -49,6 +49,20 @@ With pandas, column selection is done by passing a list of column names to your
Calling the DataFrame without the list of column names would display all columns (akin to SQL's
``*``).

In SQL, you can add a calculated column:

.. code-block:: sql

SELECT *, tip/total_bill as tip_rate
FROM tips
LIMIT 5;

With pandas, you can use the assign() method of a DataFrame to append a new column:

.. ipython:: python

tips.assign(tip_rate = tips['tip'] / tips['total_bill']).head(5)

WHERE
-----
Filtering in SQL is done via a WHERE clause.
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