get max value dataframe code example

Example 1: pandas get index of max value in column

#use this to get the index of the max value of a column
max_index = column.idxmax()

Example 2: get max value column pandas

max_value_column = df["column_name"].max()

Example 3: max of two columns pandas

df["C"] = df[["A", "B"]].max(axis=1)