I'm not a pro when it comes to DataFrames, but for your first application you might want to look at findin?
I believe you could achieve your goal by doing: data_frame_value_in_set = data_frame[findin(data_frame[:quality], [7,8]), :] This should return all rows where "quality" is either 7 or 8, and should trivially extend to any Array you might want to put instead of [7,8] in this example.
