Median of pandas dataframe column

If you're looking for how to calculate the Median Absolute Deviation -

In [1]: df['dist'] = abs(df['count'] - df['count'].median())

In [2]: df
Out[2]:
   name  count  dist
0  aaaa   2000  1100
1  bbbb   1900  1000
2  cccc    900     0
3  dddd    500   400
4  eeee    100   800

In [3]: df['dist'].median()
Out[3]: 800.0

If you want to see the median, you can use df.describe(). The 50% value is the median.