I'm sorry, I know this is basic but I've tried to figure it out myself for 2 days by sifting through documentation to no avail.
My code:
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
name = ["bob","bobby","bombastic"]
age = [10,20,30]
price = [111,222,333]
share = [3,6,9]
list = [name,age,price,share]
list2 = np.transpose(list)
dftest = pd.DataFrame(list2, columns = ["name","age","price","share"])
print(dftest)
name age price share
0 bob 10 111 3
1 bobby 20 222 6
2 bombastic 30 333 9
Want to divide all elements in 'price' column with all elements in 'share' column. I've tried:
print(dftest[['price']/['share']]) - Failed
dftest['price']/dftest['share'] - Failed, unsupported operand type
dftest.loc[:,'price']/dftest.loc[:,'share'] - Failed
Wondering if I could just change everything to int or float, I tried:
dftest.astype(float) - cant convert from str to float
Ive tried iter and items methods but could not understand the printouts...
My only suspicion is to use something called iterate, which I am unable to wrap my head around despite reading other old posts...
Please help me T_T
Apologies in advance for the somewhat protracted answer, but the question is somewhat unclear with regards to what exactly you're attempting to accomplish.
If you simply want price[0]/share[0], price[1]/share[1], etc. you can just do:
dftest['price_div_share'] = dftest['price'] / dftest['share']
The issue with the operand types can be solved by:
dftest['price_div_share'] = dftest['price'].astype(float) / dftest['share'].astype(float)
You're getting the cant convert from str to float error because you're trying to call astype(float) on the ENTIRE dataframe which contains string columns.
If you want to divide each item by each item, i.e. price[0] / share[0], price[1] / share[0], price[2] / share[0], price[0] / share[1], etc. You would need to iterate through each item and append the result to a new list. You can do that pretty easily with a for loop, although it may take some time if you're working with a large dataset. It would look something like this if you simply want the result:
new_list = []
for p in dftest['price'].astype(float):
for s in dftest['share'].astype(float):
new_list.append(p/s)
If you want to get this in a new dataframe you can simply save it to a new dataframe using pd.Dataframe() method:
new_df = pd.Dataframe(new_list, columns=[price_divided_by_share])
This new dataframe would only have one column (the result, as mentioned above). If you want the information from the original dataframe as well, then you would do something like the following:
new_list = []
for n, a, p in zip(dftest['name'], dftest['age'], dftest['price'].astype(float):
for s in dftest['share'].astype(float):
new_list.append([n, a, p, s, p/s])
new_df = pd.Dataframe(new_list, columns=[name, age, price, share, price_div_by_share])
If you check the data types of your dataframe, you will realise that they are all strings/object type :
dftest.dtypes
name object
age object
price object
share object
dtype: object
first step will be to change the relevant columns to numbers - this is one way:
dftest = dftest.set_index("name").astype(float)
dftest.dtypes
age float64
price float64
share float64
dtype: object
This way you make the names a useful index, and separate it from the numeric data. This is just a suggestion; you may have other reasons to leave names as a columns - in that case, you have to individually change the data types of each column.
Once that is done, you can safely execute your code :
dftest.div(dftest.share,axis=0)
age price share
name
bob 3.333333 37.0 1.0
bobby 3.333333 37.0 1.0
bombastic 3.333333 37.0 1.0
I assume this is what you expect as your outcome. If not, you can tweak it. Main part is get your data types as numbers before computation/division can occur.
Related
Imagine I have a dataset that is like so:
ID birthyear weight
0 619040 1962 0.1231231
1 600161 1963 0.981742
2 25602033 1963 1.3123124
3 624870 1987 10,000
and I want to get the mean of the column weight, but the obvious 10,000 is hindering the actual mean. In this situation I cannot change the value but must work around it, this is what I've got so far, but obviously it's including that last value.
avg_num_items = df_cleaned['trans_quantity'].mean()
translist = df_cleaned['trans_quantity'].tolist()
my dataframe is df_cleaned and the column I'm actually working with is 'trans_quantity' so how do I go about the mean while working around that value?
Since you added SQL in your tags, In SQL you'd want to exclude it in the WHERE clause:
SELECT AVG(trans_quantity)
FROM your_data_base
WHERE trans_quantity <> 10,000
In Pandas:
avg_num_items = df_cleaned[df_cleaned["trans_quantity"] != 10000]["trans_quantity"].mean()
You can also replace your value with a NAN and skip it in the mean:
avg_num_items = df_cleaned["trans_quantity"].replace(10000, np.nan).mean(skipna=True)
With pandas, ensure you have numeric data (10,000 is a string), filter the values above threshold and use the mean:
(pd.to_numeric(df['weight'], errors='coerce')
.loc[lambda x: x<10000]
.mean()
)
output: 0.8057258333333334
Lets say i have Dataframe, which has 200 values, prices for products. I want to run some operation on this dataframe, like calculate average price for last 10 prices.
The way i understand it, right now pandas will go through every single row and calculate average for each row. Ie first 9 rows will be Nan, then from 10-200, it would calculate average for each row.
My issue is that i need to do a lot of these calculations and performance is an issue. For that reason, i would want to run the average only on say on last 10 values (dont need more) from all values, while i want to keep those values in the dataframe. Ie i dont want to get rid of those values or create new Dataframe.
I just essentially want to do calculation on less data, so it is faster.
Is something like that possible? Hopefully the question is clear.
Building off Chicodelarose's answer, you can achieve this in a more "pandas-like" syntax.
Defining your df as follows, we get 200 prices up to within [0, 1000).
df = pd.DataFrame((np.random.rand(200) * 1000.).round(decimals=2), columns=["price"])
The bit you're looking for, though, would the following:
def add10(n: float) -> float:
"""An exceptionally simple function to demonstrate you can set
values, too.
"""
return n + 10
df["price"].iloc[-12:] = df["price"].iloc[-12:].apply(add10)
Of course, you can also use these selections to return something else without setting values, too.
>>> df["price"].iloc[-12:].mean().round(decimals=2)
309.63 # this will, of course, be different as we're using random numbers
The primary justification for this approach lies in the use of pandas tooling. Say you want to operate over a subset of your data with multiple columns, you simply need to adjust your .apply(...) to contain an axis parameter, as follows: .apply(fn, axis=1).
This becomes much more readable the longer you spend in pandas. 🙂
Given a dataframe like the following:
Price
0 197.45
1 59.30
2 131.63
3 127.22
4 35.22
.. ...
195 73.05
196 47.73
197 107.58
198 162.31
199 195.02
[200 rows x 1 columns]
Call the following to obtain the mean over the last n rows of the dataframe:
def mean_over_n_last_rows(df, n, colname):
return df.iloc[-n:][colname].mean().round(decimals=2)
print(mean_over_n_last_rows(df, 2, "Price"))
Output:
178.67
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 have a data in the following form:
product/productId B000EVS4TY
1 product/title Arrowhead Mills Cookie Mix, Chocolate Chip, 1...
2 product/price unknown
3 review/userId A2SRVDDDOQ8QJL
4 review/profileName MJ23447
5 review/helpfulness 2/4
6 review/score 4.0
7 review/time 1206576000
8 review/summary Delicious cookie mix
9 review/text I thought it was funny that I bought this pro...
10 product/productId B0000DF3IX
11 product/title Paprika Hungarian Sweet
12 product/price unknown
13 review/userId A244MHL2UN2EYL
14 review/profileName P. J. Whiting "book cook"
15 review/helpfulness 0/0
16 review/score 5.0
17 review/time 1127088000
I want to convert it to a dataframe such that the entries in the 1st column
product/productId
product/title
product/price
review/userId
review/profileName
review/helpfulness
review/score
review/time
review/summary
review/text
are the column headers with the values arranged corresponding to each header in the table.
I still had a tiny doubt about your file, but since both my suggestions are quite similar, I will try to address both the scenarios you might have.
In case your file doesn't actually have the line numbers inside of it, this should do it:
filepath = "./untitled.txt" # you need to change this to your file path
column_separator="\s{3,}" # we'll use a regex, I explain some caveats of this below...
# engine='python' surpresses a warning by pandas
# header=None is that so all lines are considered 'data'
df = pd.read_csv(filepath, sep=column_separator, engine="python", header=None)
df = df.set_index(0) # this takes column '0' and uses it as the dataframe index
df = df.T # this makes the data look like you were asking (goes from multiple rows+1column to multiple columns+1 row)
df = df.reset_index(drop=True) # this is just so the first row starts at index '0' instead of '1'
# you could just do the last 3 lines with:
# df = df.set_index(0).T.reset_index(drop=True)
If you do have line numbers, then we just need to do some little adjustments
filepath = "./untitled1.txt"
column_separator="\s{3,}"
df = pd.read_csv(filepath, sep=column_separator, engine="python", header=None, index_col=0)
df.set_index(1).T.reset_index(drop=True) #I did all the 3 steps in 1 line, for brevity
In this last case, I would advise you change it in order to have line numbers in all of them (in the example you provided, the numbering starts at the second line, this might be an option about how you handle headers when exporting the data in whatever tool you might be using
Regarding the regex, the caveat is that "\s{3,}" looks for any block of 3 consecutive whitespaces or more to determine the column separator. The problem here is that we'll depend a bit on the data to find the columns. For instance, if in any of the values just so happens to appear 3 consecutive spaces, pandas will raise an exception, since the line will have one more column than the others. One solution to this could be increasing it to any other 'appropriate' number, but then we still depend on the data (for instance, with more than 3, in your example, "review/text" would have enough spaces for the two columns to be identified)
edit after realising what you meant by "stacked"
Whatever "line-number scenario" you have, you'll need to make sure you always have the same number of columns for all registers and reshape the continuous dataframe with something similar to this:
number_of_columns = 10 # you'll need to make sure all "registers" do have the same number of columns otherwise this will break
new_shape = (-1,number_of_columns) # this tuple will mean "whatever number of lines", by 10 columns
final_df = pd.DataFrame(data = df.values.reshape(new_shape)
,columns=df.columns.tolist()[:-10])
Again, take notice of making sure that all lines have the same number of columns (for instance, a file with just the data you provided, assuming 10 columns, wouldn't work). Also, this solution assumes all columns will have the same name.
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