Adding meta-information/metadata to pandas DataFrame
Just ran into this issue myself. As of pandas 0.13, DataFrames have a _metadata attribute on them that does persist through functions that return new DataFrames. Also seems to survive serialization just fine (I've only tried json, but I imagine hdf is covered as well).
Is it possible to add some meta-information/metadata to a pandas DataFrame?
For example, the instrument's name used to measure the data, the instrument responsible, etc.
One workaround would be to create a column with that information, but it seems wasteful to store a single piece of information in every row!