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Take a small dataset, for example a sample of the Titanic data:

ds=Dataset@{<|"PassengerId" -> 1, "Survived" -> 0, "Pclass" -> 3, 
"Name" -> "Braund, Mr. Owen Harris", "Sex" -> "male", "Age" -> 22, 
"SibSp" -> 1, "Parch" -> 0, "Ticket" -> "A/5 21171", "Fare" -> 7.25,
 "Cabin" -> "", "Embarked" -> "S"|>, <|"PassengerId" -> 2, 
"Survived" -> 1, "Pclass" -> 1, 
"Name" -> "Cumings, Mrs. John Bradley (Florence Briggs Thayer)", 
"Sex" -> "female", "Age" -> 38, "SibSp" -> 1, "Parch" -> 0, 
"Ticket" -> "PC 17599", "Fare" -> 71.2833, "Cabin" -> "C85", 
"Embarked" -> "C"|>, <|"PassengerId" -> 3, "Survived" -> 1, 
"Pclass" -> 3, "Name" -> "Heikkinen, Miss. Laina", 
 "Sex" -> "female", "Age" -> 26, "SibSp" -> 0, "Parch" -> 0, 
"Ticket" -> "STON/O2. 3101282", "Fare" -> 7.925, "Cabin" -> "", 
"Embarked" -> "S"|>, <|"PassengerId" -> 4, "Survived" -> 1, 
"Pclass" -> 1, 
"Name" -> "Futrelle, Mrs. Jacques Heath (Lily May Peel)", 
"Sex" -> "female", "Age" -> 35, "SibSp" -> 1, "Parch" -> 0, 
"Ticket" -> 113803, "Fare" -> 53.1, "Cabin" -> "C123", 
"Embarked" -> "S"|>, <|"PassengerId" -> 5, "Survived" -> 0, 
"Pclass" -> 3, "Name" -> "Allen, Mr. William Henry", 
"Sex" -> "male", "Age" -> 35, "SibSp" -> 0, "Parch" -> 0, 
"Ticket" -> 373450, "Fare" -> 8.05, "Cabin" -> "", 
"Embarked" -> "S"|>}

I want to extract, for example, the age of a particular passenger. I can group by name:

 dsName=ds[GroupBy["Name"]]

But trying to extract the age of a given passenger with

dsName[["Heikkinen, Miss. Laina","Age"]]

results in an error message. What is the correct way of doing this?

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dsName[["Heikkinen, Miss. Laina", All,"Age"]]

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You can also use

dsName["Heikkinen, Miss. Laina", All,"Age"]

dsName["Heikkinen, Miss. Laina"][All,"Age"]

ds[Select[#"Name"=="Heikkinen, Miss. Laina"&], "Age"]

ds[Select[#"Name" == "Heikkinen, Miss. Laina" &]][All, "Age"]
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    $\begingroup$ Do you know why the method I tried does not work? $\endgroup$
    – Whelp
    Commented Oct 14, 2019 at 13:46
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    $\begingroup$ @Whelp, if you look at the target row using dsName[["Heikkinen, Miss. Laina"]]// Normal you see that it is of the form {<|key1 -> value1,...|>}(your method would have worked if this were <|key1 -> value1,...|>) ; so we need to use All (1 would have worked too) to get all elements in this added dimension. $\endgroup$
    – kglr
    Commented Oct 14, 2019 at 13:57
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    $\begingroup$ You can also Transpose the dataset after your GroupBy so that the levels are what you'd expect. dsName = ds[GroupBy["Name"], Transpose], and then you can do dsName["Heikkinen, Miss. Laina", "Age"] as you'd expect $\endgroup$
    – Carl Lange
    Commented Oct 15, 2019 at 13:08

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