# How to get a quick description of a vector/matrix like \`pd.DataFrame.describe\`

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-a-quick-description-of-a-vector-matrix-like-pd-dataframe-describe/78013
**Category:** General Usage
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**Created:** [March 17, 2022, 8:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-a-quick-description-of-a-vector-matrix-like-pd-dataframe-describe/78013 "2022-03-17T08:36:10Z")
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### Author: ![this\_josh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/this_josh/32/42679_2.png) [@this\_josh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/this_josh)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2022, 9:28am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-a-quick-description-of-a-vector-matrix-like-pd-dataframe-describe/78013/5 "2022-03-17T09:28:55Z")

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This does give the correct information but the output is quite ugly as it’s 10x Vector description. It’d be better if the description could maintain the matrices columns, as it would with `pandas.DataFrame.describe` and the simple `describe(ones(10,10))` syntax.

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