python - How to calculate 1st and 3rd quartiles?

Question

I have DataFrame:

    time_diff   avg_trips
0   0.450000    1.0
1   0.483333    1.0
2   0.500000    1.0
3   0.516667    1.0
4   0.533333    2.0

I want to get 1st quartile, 3rd quartile and median for the column time_diff. To obtain median, I use np.median(df["time_diff"].values).

How can I calculate quartiles?

Answer 1

By using pandas:

df.time_diff.quantile([0.25,0.5,0.75])


Out[793]: 
0.25    0.483333
0.50    0.500000
0.75    0.516667
Name: time_diff, dtype: float64