I am working with several CSV's that first N columns are information and then the next Ms (M is big) columns are information regarding a date.
This is the dataframe picture
I need to set just the columns between N+1 to N+M - 1 columns name to date format.
I tried this, in this case N+1 = 5, no matter M, I suppose that I can use -1 to not affect the last column name.
ContDiarios.columns[5:-1] = pd.to_datetime(ContDiarios.columns[5:-1])
but I get the following error:
TypeError: Index does not support mutable operations
The way you are doing is not feasable. Please try this way
def convert(x):
try:
return pd.to_datetime(x)
except:
return x
x.columns = map(convert,x.columns)
Or you can also use df.rename property to convert it.
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I have a data frame, lets say xyz. I have written code to find out the % of null values each column possess in the dataframe. my code below:
round(100*(xyz.isnull().sum()/len(xyz.index)), 2)
let say i got following results:
abc 26.63
def 36.58
ghi 78.46
I want to drop column ghi because it has more than 70% of null values.
I achieved it using the following code:
xyz = xyz.drop(xyz.loc[:,round(100*(xyz.isnull().sum()/len(xyz.index)), 2)>70].columns, 1)
but , i did not understand how does this code works, can anyone please explain it?
the code is doing the following:
xyz.drop( [...], 1)
removes the specified elements for a given axis, either by row or by column. In this particular case, df.drop( ..., 1) means you're dropping by axis 1, i.e, column
xyz.loc[:, ... ].columns
will return a list with the column names resulting from your slicing condition
round(100*(xyz.isnull().sum()/len(xyz.index)), 2)>70
this instruction is counting the number of nulls, adding them up and normalizing by the number of rows, effectively computing the percentage of nan in each column. Then, the amount is rounded to have only 2 decimal positions and finally you return True is the number of nan is more than 70%. Hence, you get a mapping between columns and a True/False array.
Putting everything together: you're first producing a Boolean array that marks which columns have more than 70% nan, then, using .loc you use Boolean indexing to look only at the columns you want to drop ( nan % > 70%), then using .columns you recover the name of such columns, which then are used by the .drop instruction.
Hopefully this clear things up!
If you code is hard to understand , you can just check dropna with thresh, since pandas already cover this case.
df=df.dropna(axis=1,thresh=round(len(df)*0.3))
I'm trying to perform calculations based on the entries in a pandas dataframe. The dataframe looks something like this:
and it contains 1466 rows. I'll have to run similar calculations on other dfs with more rows later.
What I'm trying to do, is calculate something like mag='(U-V)/('R-I)' (but ignoring any values that are -999), put that in a new column, and then z_pred=10**((mag-c)m) in a new column (mag, c and m are just hard-coded variables). I have other columns I need to add too, but I figure that'll just be an extension of the same method.
I started out by trying
for i in range(1):
current = qso[:]
mag = (U-V)/(R-I)
name = current['NED']
z_pred = 10**((mag - c)/m)
z_meas = current['z']
but I got either a Series for z, which I couldn't operate on, or various type errors when I tried to print the values or write them to a file.
I found this question which gave me a start, but I can't see how to apply it to multiple calculations, as in my situation.
How can I achieve this?
Conditionally adding calculated columns row wise are usually performed with numpy's np.where;
df['mag'] = np.where(~df[['U', 'V', 'R', 'I']].eq(-999).any(1), (df.U - df.V) / (df.R - df.I), -999)
Note; assuming here that when any of the columns contain '-999' it will not be calculated and a '-999' is returned.
I'm iterating through a dataframe (called hdf) and applying changes on a row by row basis. hdf is sorted by group_id and assigned a 1 through n rank on some criteria.
# Groupby function creates subset dataframes (a dataframe per distinct group_id).
grouped = hdf.groupby('group_id')
# Iterate through each subdataframe.
for name, group in grouped:
# This grabs the top index for each subdataframe
index1 = group[group['group_rank']==1].index
# If criteria1 == 0, flag all rows for removal
if(max(group['criteria1']) == 0):
for x in range(rank1, rank1 + max(group['group_rank'])):
hdf.loc[x,'remove_row'] = 1
I'm getting the following error:
TypeError: int() argument must be a string or a number, not 'Int64Index'
I get the same error when I try to cast rank1 explicitly I get the same error:
rank1 = int(group[group['auction_rank']==1].index)
Can someone explain what is happening and provide an alternative?
The answer to your specific question is that index1 is an Int64Index (basically a list), even if it has one element. To get that one element, you can use index1[0].
But there are better ways of accomplishing your goal. If you want to remove all of the rows in the "bad" groups, you can use filter:
hdf = hdf.groupby('group_id').filter(lambda group: group['criteria1'].max() != 0)
If you only want to remove certain rows within matching groups, you can write a function and then use apply:
def filter_group(group):
if group['criteria1'].max() != 0:
return group
else:
return group.loc[other criteria here]
hdf = hdf.groupby('group_id').apply(filter_group)
(If you really like your current way of doing things, you should know that loc will accept an index, not just an integer, so you could also do hdf.loc[group.index, 'remove_row'] = 1).
call tolist() on Int64Index object. Then the list can be iterated as int values.
simply add [0] to insure the getting the first value from the index
rank1 = int(group[group['auction_rank']==1].index[0])
I'm very confused on the apply function for pandas. I have a big dataframe where one column is a column of strings. I'm then using a function to count part-of-speech occurrences. I'm just not sure the way of setting up my apply statement or my function.
def noun_count(row):
x = tagger(df['string'][row].split())
# array flattening and filtering out all but nouns, then summing them
return num
So basically I have a function similar to the above where I use a POS tagger on a column that outputs a single number (number of nouns). I may possibly rewrite it to output multiple numbers for different parts of speech, but I can't wrap my head around apply.
I'm pretty sure I don't really have either part arranged correctly. For instance, I can run noun_count[row] and get the correct value for any index but I can't figure out how to make it work with apply how I have it set up. Basically I don't know how to pass the row value to the function within the apply statement.
df['num_nouns'] = df.apply(noun_count(??),1)
Sorry this question is all over the place. So what can I do to get a simple result like
string num_nouns
0 'cat' 1
1 'two cats' 1
EDIT:
So I've managed to get something working by using list comprehension (someone posted an answer, but they've deleted it).
df['string'].apply(lambda row: noun_count(row),1)
which required an adjustment to my function:
def tagger_nouns(x):
list_of_lists = st.tag(x.split())
flat = [y for z in list_of_lists for y in z]
Parts_of_speech = [row[1] for row in flattened]
c = Counter(Parts_of_speech)
nouns = c['NN']+c['NNS']+c['NNP']+c['NNPS']
return nouns
I'm using the Stanford tagger, but I have a big problem with computation time, and I'm using the left 3 words model. I'm noticing that it's calling the .jar file again and again (java keeps opening and closing in the task manager) and maybe that's unavoidable, but it's really taking far too long to run. Any way I can speed it up?
I don't know what 'tagger' is but here's a simple example with a word count that ought to work more or less the same way:
f = lambda x: len(x.split())
df['num_words'] = df['string'].apply(f)
string num_words
0 'cat' 1
1 'two cats' 2
There is an inconsistency with dataframes that I cant explain. In the following, I'm not looking for a workaround (already found one) but an explanation of what is going on under the hood and how it explains the output.
One of my colleagues which I talked into using python and pandas, has a dataframe "data" with 12,000 rows.
"data" has a column "length" that contains numbers from 0 to 20. she wants to divided the dateframe into groups by length range: 0 to 9 in group 1, 9 to 14 in group 2, 15 and more in group 3. her solution was to add another column, "group", and fill it with the appropriate values. she wrote the following code:
data['group'] = np.nan
mask = data['length'] < 10;
data['group'][mask] = 1;
mask2 = (data['length'] > 9) & (data['phraseLength'] < 15);
data['group'][mask2] = 2;
mask3 = data['length'] > 14;
data['group'][mask3] = 3;
This code is not good, of course. the reason it is not good is because you dont know in run time whether data['group'][mask3], for example, will be a view and thus actually change the dataframe, or it will be a copy and thus the dataframe would remain unchanged. It took me quit sometime to explain it to her, since she argued correctly that she is doing an assignment, not a selection, so the operation should always return a view.
But that was not the strange part. the part the even I couldn't understand is this:
After performing this set of operation, we verified that the assignment took place in two different ways:
By typing data in the console and examining the dataframe summary. It told us we had a few thousand of null values. The number of null values was the same as the size of mask3 so we assumed the last assignment was made on a copy and not on a view.
By typing data.group.value_counts(). That returned 3 values: 1,2 and 3 (surprise) we then typed data.group.value_counts.sum() and it summed up to 12,000!
So by method 2, the group column contained no null values and all the values we wanted it to have. But by method 1 - it didnt!
Can anyone explain this?
see docs here.
You dont' want to set values this way for exactly the reason you pointed; since you don't know if its a view, you don't know that you are actually changing the data. 0.13 will raise/warn that you are attempting to do this, but easiest/best to just access like:
data.loc[mask3,'group'] = 3
which will guarantee you inplace setitem