Q:

Plotting in Python Notebook (Docs)

Attempting to go through the pandas doc at http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/visualization.html#basic-plotting-plot I get an error :
NameError: name 'Series' is not defined 

I can import pandas and supply 'pandas.Series', but I want to know how to set up notebook, as in the docs, so that it's already included.

A:

You can customize Ipython notebook profile file ipython_config.py typically  located in ~/.ipython/profile_default/ by adding something like :
c.InteractiveShellApp.exec_lines = [
    'import pandas',
]

You can read the documentation for ipython latest version here

