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# pandas.Series.first

`Series.``first`(offset)

  Convenience method for subsetting initial periods of time series data based on a date offset

  Parameters : | offset : string, DateOffset, dateutil.relativedelta
  Returns : | subset : type of caller

  Examples

  ts.last(‘10D’) -> First 10 days

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