I have a DataFrame with columns A, B, and C. For each value of A, I would like to select the row with the minimum value in column B.
That is, from this:
df = pd.DataFrame({'A': [1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2],
'B': [4, 5, 2, 7, 4, 6],
'C': [3, 4, 10, 2, 4, 6]})
A B C
0 1 4 3
1 1 5 4
2 1 2 10
3 2 7 2
4 2 4 4
5 2 6 6
I would like to get:
A B C
0 1 2 10
1 2 4 4
For the moment I am grouping by column A, then creating a value that indicates to me the rows I will keep:
a = data.groupby('A').min()
a['A'] = a.index
to_keep = [str(x[0]) + str(x[1]) for x in a[['A', 'B']].values]
data['id'] = data['A'].astype(str) + data['B'].astype('str')
data[data['id'].isin(to_keep)]
I am sure that there is a much more straightforward way to do this.
I have seen many answers here that use MultiIndex, which I would prefer to avoid.
Thank you for your help.
I feel like you're overthinking this. Just use groupby and idxmin:
df.loc[df.groupby('A').B.idxmin()]
A B C
2 1 2 10
4 2 4 4
df.loc[df.groupby('A').B.idxmin()].reset_index(drop=True)
A B C
0 1 2 10
1 2 4 4
Had a similar situation but with a more complex column heading (e.g. "B val") in which case this is needed:
df.loc[df.groupby('A')['B val'].idxmin()]
The accepted answer (suggesting idxmin) cannot be used with the pipe pattern. A pipe-friendly alternative is to first sort values and then use groupby with DataFrame.head:
data.sort_values('B').groupby('A').apply(DataFrame.head, n=1)
This is possible because by default groupby preserves the order of rows within each group, which is stable and documented behaviour (see pandas.DataFrame.groupby).
This approach has additional benefits:
it can be easily expanded to select n rows with smallest values in specific column
it can break ties by providing another column (as a list) to .sort_values(), e.g.:
data.sort_values(['final_score', 'midterm_score']).groupby('year').apply(DataFrame.head, n=1)
As with other answers, to exactly match the result desired in the question .reset_index(drop=True) is needed, making the final snippet:
df.sort_values('B').groupby('A').apply(DataFrame.head, n=1).reset_index(drop=True)
I found an answer a little bit more wordy, but a lot more efficient:
This is the example dataset:
data = pd.DataFrame({'A': [1,1,1,2,2,2], 'B':[4,5,2,7,4,6], 'C':[3,4,10,2,4,6]})
data
Out:
A B C
0 1 4 3
1 1 5 4
2 1 2 10
3 2 7 2
4 2 4 4
5 2 6 6
First we will get the min values on a Series from a groupby operation:
min_value = data.groupby('A').B.min()
min_value
Out:
A
1 2
2 4
Name: B, dtype: int64
Then, we merge this series result on the original data frame
data = data.merge(min_value, on='A',suffixes=('', '_min'))
data
Out:
A B C B_min
0 1 4 3 2
1 1 5 4 2
2 1 2 10 2
3 2 7 2 4
4 2 4 4 4
5 2 6 6 4
Finally, we get only the lines where B is equal to B_min and drop B_min since we don't need it anymore.
data = data[data.B==data.B_min].drop('B_min', axis=1)
data
Out:
A B C
2 1 2 10
4 2 4 4
I have tested it on very large datasets and this was the only way I could make it work in a reasonable time.
You can sort_values and drop_duplicates:
df.sort_values('B').drop_duplicates('A')
Output:
A B C
2 1 2 10
4 2 4 4
The solution is, as written before ;
df.loc[df.groupby('A')['B'].idxmin()]
If the solution but then if you get an error;
"Passing list-likes to .loc or [] with any missing labels is no longer supported.
The following labels were missing: Float64Index([nan], dtype='float64').
See https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/user_guide/indexing.html#deprecate-loc-reindex-listlike"
In my case, there were 'NaN' values at column B. So, I used 'dropna()' then it worked.
df.loc[df.groupby('A')['B'].idxmin().dropna()]
You can also boolean indexing the rows where B column is minimal value
out = df[df['B'] == df.groupby('A')['B'].transform('min')]
print(out)
A B C
2 1 2 10
4 2 4 4
I have two dataframes, A and B. I need to create a third column that when the numbers in A matches the numbers in B it writes correct otherwise it marks it a null. any suggestions?
enter image description here
In [100]: A
Out[100]:
a
0 1
1 2
2 3
3 4
4 5
In [101]: B
Out[101]:
a
2 3
3 4
4 5
In [102]: A['Result'] = A['a'].isin(B['a'] ).replace( {False : None , True : 'correct' })
In [103]: A
Out[103]:
a Result
0 1 None
1 2 None
2 3 correct
3 4 correct
4 5 correct
Having df of probabilities distribution, I get max probability for rows with df.idxmax(axis=1) like this:
df['1k-th'] = df.idxmax(axis=1)
and get the following result:
(scroll the tables to the right if you can not see all the columns)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 1k-th
0 0.114869 0.020708 0.025587 0.028741 0.031257 0.031619 0.747219 6
1 0.020206 0.012710 0.010341 0.012196 0.812495 0.113863 0.018190 4
2 0.023585 0.735475 0.091795 0.021683 0.027581 0.054217 0.045664 1
3 0.009834 0.009175 0.013165 0.016014 0.015507 0.899115 0.037190 5
4 0.023357 0.736059 0.088721 0.021626 0.027341 0.056289 0.046607 1
the question is how to get the 2-th, 3th, etc probabilities, so that I get the following result?:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 1k-th 2-th
0 0.114869 0.020708 0.025587 0.028741 0.031257 0.031619 0.747219 6 0
1 0.020206 0.012710 0.010341 0.012196 0.812495 0.113863 0.018190 4 3
2 0.023585 0.735475 0.091795 0.021683 0.027581 0.054217 0.045664 1 4
3 0.009834 0.009175 0.013165 0.016014 0.015507 0.899115 0.037190 5 4
4 0.023357 0.736059 0.088721 0.021626 0.027341 0.056289 0.046607 1 2
Thank you!
My own solution is not the prettiest, but does it's job and works fast:
for i in range(7):
p[f'{i}k'] = p[[0,1,2,3,4,5,6]].idxmax(axis=1)
p[f'{i}k_v'] = p[[0,1,2,3,4,5,6]].max(axis=1)
for x in range(7):
p[x] = np.where(p[x]==p[f'{i}k_v'], np.nan, p[x])
The loop does:
finds the largest value and it's column index
drops the found value (sets to nan)
again
finds the 2nd largest value
drops the found value
etc ...
I know how to set the pandas data frame equal to a column.
i.e.:
df = df['col1']
what is the equivalent for a row? let's say taking the index? and would I eliminate one or more of them?
Many thanks.
If you want to take a copy of a row then you can either use loc for label indexing or iloc for integer based indexing:
In [104]:
df = pd.DataFrame({'a':np.random.randn(10),'b':np.random.randn(10)})
df
Out[104]:
a b
0 1.216387 -1.298502
1 1.043843 0.379970
2 0.114923 -0.125396
3 0.531293 -0.386598
4 -0.278565 1.224272
5 0.491417 -0.498816
6 0.222941 0.183743
7 0.322535 -0.510449
8 0.695988 -0.300045
9 -0.904195 -1.226186
In [106]:
row = df.iloc[3]
row
Out[106]:
a 0.531293
b -0.386598
Name: 3, dtype: float64
If you want to remove that row then you can use drop:
In [107]:
df.drop(3)
Out[107]:
a b
0 1.216387 -1.298502
1 1.043843 0.379970
2 0.114923 -0.125396
4 -0.278565 1.224272
5 0.491417 -0.498816
6 0.222941 0.183743
7 0.322535 -0.510449
8 0.695988 -0.300045
9 -0.904195 -1.226186
You can also use a slice or pass a list of labels:
In [109]:
rows = df.loc[[3,5]]
row_slice = df.loc[3:5]
print(rows)
print(row_slice)
a b
3 0.531293 -0.386598
5 0.491417 -0.498816
a b
3 0.531293 -0.386598
4 -0.278565 1.224272
5 0.491417 -0.498816
Similarly you can pass a list to drop:
In [110]:
df.drop([3,5])
Out[110]:
a b
0 1.216387 -1.298502
1 1.043843 0.379970
2 0.114923 -0.125396
4 -0.278565 1.224272
6 0.222941 0.183743
7 0.322535 -0.510449
8 0.695988 -0.300045
9 -0.904195 -1.226186
If you wanted to drop a slice then you can slice your index and pass this to drop:
In [112]:
df.drop(df.index[3:5])
Out[112]:
a b
0 1.216387 -1.298502
1 1.043843 0.379970
2 0.114923 -0.125396
5 0.491417 -0.498816
6 0.222941 0.183743
7 0.322535 -0.510449
8 0.695988 -0.300045
9 -0.904195 -1.226186
I have a super strange problem which I spent the last hour trying to solve, but with no success. It is even more strange since I can't replicate it on a small scale.
I have a large DataFrame (150,000 entries). I took out a subset of it and did some manipulation. the subset was saved as a different variable, x.
x is smaller than the df, but its index is in the same range as the df. I'm now trying to assign x back to the DataFrame replacing values in the same column:
rep_Callers['true_vpID'] = x.true_vpID
This inserts all the different values in x to the right place in df, but instead of keeping the df.true_vpID values that are not in x, it is filling them with NaNs. So I tried a different approach:
df.ix[x.index,'true_vpID'] = x.true_vpID
But instead of filling x values in the right place in df, the df.true_vpID gets filled with the first value of x and only it! I changed the first value of x several times to make sure this is indeed what is happening, and it is. I tried to replicate it on a small scale but it didn't work:
df = DataFrame({'a':ones(5),'b':range(5)})
a b
0 1 0
1 1 1
2 1 2
3 1 3
4 1 4
z =Series([random() for i in range(5)],index = range(5))
0 0.812561
1 0.862109
2 0.031268
3 0.575634
4 0.760752
df.ix[z.index[[1,3]],'b'] = z[[1,3]]
a b
0 1 0.000000
1 1 0.812561
2 1 2.000000
3 1 0.575634
4 1 4.000000
5 1 5.000000
I really tried it all, need some new suggestions...
Try using df.update(updated_df_or_series)
Also using a simple example, you can modify a DataFrame by doing an index query and modifying the resulting object.
df_1
a b
0 1 0
1 1 1
2 1 2
3 1 3
4 1 4
df_2 = df_1.ix[3:5]
df_2.b = df_2.b + 2
df_2
a b
3 1 5
4 1 6
df_1
a b
0 1 0
1 1 1
2 1 2
3 1 5
4 1 6