add loc and iloc to subsetting (#23812)

broaden subetting topic to include the other slicing/indexing methods
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Chris
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This will show the last 5 rows of the data frame.
## Subsetting: Getting a column by name
## Subsetting
A data frame can be subset in many ways. One of the simplest is getting a single column. For instance, if the data frame `df` contains a column named `age`, we can extract it as follows:
```python
ages=df["age"]
```
Another option for subsetting a dataframe is using the loc and iloc methods. The difference between loc and iloc is that loc searches based on a label and iloc searches based on the integer value of a row or column. To perform the same indexing as the above example using loc:
```python
ages=df.loc["age"]
```
#### More Information:
1. [pandas](http://pandas.pydata.org/)