what does groupby do in pandas code example

Example 1: group by pandas examples

>>> n_by_state = df.groupby("state")["state"].count()
>>> n_by_state.head(10)
state
AK     16
AL    206
AR    117
AS      2
AZ     48
CA    361
CO     90
CT    240
DC      2
DE     97
Name: last_name, dtype: int64

Example 2: groupby and list

In [1]: df = pd.DataFrame( {'a':['A','A','B','B','B','C'], 'b':[1,2,5,5,4,6]})
        df

Out[1]: 
   a  b
0  A  1
1  A  2
2  B  5
3  B  5
4  B  4
5  C  6

In [2]: df.groupby('a')['b'].apply(list)
Out[2]: 
a
A       [1, 2]
B    [5, 5, 4]
C          [6]
Name: b, dtype: object

In [3]: df1 = df.groupby('a')['b'].apply(list).reset_index(name='new')
        df1
Out[3]: 
   a        new
0  A     [1, 2]
1  B  [5, 5, 4]
2  C        [6]