10 Minutes to pandas
This is a short introduction to pandas, geared mainly for new users. You can see more complex recipes in the
Customarily, we import as follows:
In [1]: import pandas as pdIn [2]: import numpy as np In [3]: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt Object Creation
See the
Creating a by passing a list of values, letting pandas create a default integer index:
In [4]: s = pd.Series([1,3,5,np.nan,6,8]) In [5]: s Out[5]: 0 1.0 1 3.0 2 5.0 3 NaN 4 6.0 5 8.0 dtype: float64 Creating a by passing a numpy array, with a datetime index and labeled columns:
In [6]: dates = pd.date_range('20130101', periods=6) In [7]: dates Out[7]: DatetimeIndex(['2013-01-01', '2013-01-02', '2013-01-03', '2013-01-04', '2013-01-05', '2013-01-06'], dtype='datetime64[ns]', freq='D') In [8]: df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(6,4), index=dates, columns=list('ABCD')) In [9]: df Out[9]: A B C D 2013-01-01 0.469112 -0.282863 -1.509059 -1.135632 2013-01-02 1.212112 -0.173215 0.119209 -1.044236 2013-01-03 -0.861849 -2.104569 -0.494929 1.071804 2013-01-04 0.721555 -0.706771 -1.039575 0.271860 2013-01-05 -0.424972 0.567020 0.276232 -1.087401 2013-01-06 -0.673690 0.113648 -1.478427 0.524988 Creating a DataFrame by passing a dict of objects that can be converted to series-like.
In [10]: df2 = pd.DataFrame({ 'A' : 1., ....: 'B' : pd.Timestamp('20130102'), ....: 'C' : pd.Series(1,index=list(range(4)),dtype='float32'), ....: 'D' : np.array([3] * 4,dtype='int32'), ....: 'E' : pd.Categorical(["test","train","test","train"]), ....: 'F' : 'foo' }) ....: In [11]: df2 Out[11]: A B C D E F 0 1.0 2013-01-02 1.0 3 test foo 1 1.0 2013-01-02 1.0 3 train foo 2 1.0 2013-01-02 1.0 3 test foo 3 1.0 2013-01-02 1.0 3 train foo Having specific
In [12]: df2.dtypesOut[12]: A float64 B datetime64[ns] C float32 D int32 E category F object dtype: object If you’re using IPython, tab completion for column names (as well as public attributes) is automatically enabled. Here’s a subset of the attributes that will be completed:
In [13]: df2. df2.A df2.boxplot df2.abs df2.C df2.add df2.clip df2.add_prefix df2.clip_lower df2.add_suffix df2.clip_upper df2.align df2.columns df2.all df2.combine df2.any df2.combineAdd df2.append df2.combine_first df2.apply df2.combineMult df2.applymap df2.compound df2.as_blocks df2.consolidate df2.asfreq df2.convert_objects df2.as_matrix df2.copy df2.astype df2.corr df2.at df2.corrwith df2.at_time df2.count df2.axes df2.cov df2.B df2.cummax df2.between_time df2.cummin df2.bfill df2.cumprod df2.blocks df2.cumsum df2.bool df2.D As you can see, the columns A, B, C, and D are automatically tab completed. E is there as well; the rest of the attributes have been truncated for brevity.
Viewing Data
See the
See the top & bottom rows of the frame
In [14]: df.head()Out[14]: A B C D 2013-01-01 0.469112 -0.282863 -1.509059 -1.135632 2013-01-02 1.212112 -0.173215 0.119209 -1.044236 2013-01-03 -0.861849 -2.104569 -0.494929 1.071804 2013-01-04 0.721555 -0.706771 -1.039575 0.271860 2013-01-05 -0.424972 0.567020 0.276232 -1.087401 In [15]: df.tail(3) Out[15]: A B C D 2013-01-04 0.721555 -0.706771 -1.039575 0.271860 2013-01-05 -0.424972 0.567020 0.276232 -1.087401 2013-01-06 -0.673690 0.113648 -1.478427 0.524988 Display the index, columns, and the underlying numpy data
In [16]: df.indexOut[16]: DatetimeIndex(['2013-01-01', '2013-01-02', '2013-01-03', '2013-01-04', '2013-01-05', '2013-01-06'], dtype='datetime64[ns]', freq='D') In [17]: df.columns Out[17]: Index([u'A', u'B', u'C', u'D'], dtype='object') In [18]: df.values Out[18]: array([[ 0.4691, -0.2829, -1.5091, -1.1356], [ 1.2121, -0.1732, 0.1192, -1.0442], [-0.8618, -2.1046, -0.4949, 1.0718], [ 0.7216, -0.7068, -1.0396, 0.2719], [-0.425 , 0.567 , 0.2762, -1.0874], [-0.6737, 0.1136, -1.4784, 0.525 ]]) Describe shows a quick statistic summary of your data
In [19]: df.describe()Out[19]: A B C D count 6.000000 6.000000 6.000000 6.000000 mean 0.073711 -0.431125 -0.687758 -0.233103 std 0.843157 0.922818 0.779887 0.973118 min -0.861849 -2.104569 -1.509059 -1.135632 25% -0.611510 -0.600794 -1.368714 -1.076610 50% 0.022070 -0.228039 -0.767252 -0.386188 75% 0.658444 0.041933 -0.034326 0.461706 max 1.212112 0.567020 0.276232 1.071804 Transposing your data
In [20]: df.TOut[20]: 2013-01-01 2013-01-02 2013-01-03 2013-01-04 2013-01-05 2013-01-06 A 0.469112 1.212112 -0.861849 0.721555 -0.424972 -0.673690 B -0.282863 -0.173215 -2.104569 -0.706771 0.567020 0.113648 C -1.509059 0.119209 -0.494929 -1.039575 0.276232 -1.478427 D -1.135632 -1.044236 1.071804 0.271860 -1.087401 0.524988 Sorting by an axis
In [21]: df.sort_index(axis=1, ascending=False) Out[21]: D C B A 2013-01-01 -1.135632 -1.509059 -0.282863 0.469112 2013-01-02 -1.044236 0.119209 -0.173215 1.212112 2013-01-03 1.071804 -0.494929 -2.104569 -0.861849 2013-01-04 0.271860 -1.039575 -0.706771 0.721555 2013-01-05 -1.087401 0.276232 0.567020 -0.424972 2013-01-06 0.524988 -1.478427 0.113648 -0.673690 Sorting by values
In [22]: df.sort_values(by='B') Out[22]: A B C D 2013-01-03 -0.861849 -2.104569 -0.494929 1.071804 2013-01-04 0.721555 -0.706771 -1.039575 0.271860 2013-01-01 0.469112 -0.282863 -1.509059 -1.135632 2013-01-02 1.212112 -0.173215 0.119209 -1.044236 2013-01-06 -0.673690 0.113648 -1.478427 0.524988 2013-01-05 -0.424972 0.567020 0.276232 -1.087401 Selection
Note
While standard Python / Numpy expressions for selecting and setting are intuitive and come in handy for interactive work, for production code, we recommend the optimized pandas data access methods, .at, .iat, .loc, .iloc and .ix.
See the indexing documentation and
Getting
Selecting a single column, which yields a Series, equivalent to df.A
In [23]: df['A']Out[23]: 2013-01-01 0.469112 2013-01-02 1.212112 2013-01-03 -0.861849 2013-01-04 0.721555 2013-01-05 -0.424972 2013-01-06 -0.673690 Freq: D, Name: A, dtype: float64 Selecting via [], which slices the rows.
In [24]: df[0:3] Out[24]: A B C D 2013-01-01 0.469112 -0.282863 -1.509059 -1.135632 2013-01-02 1.212112 -0.173215 0.119209 -1.044236 2013-01-03 -0.861849 -2.104569 -0.494929 1.071804 In [25]: df['20130102':'20130104'] Out[25]: A B C D 2013-01-02 1.212112 -0.173215 0.119209 -1.044236 2013-01-03 -0.861849 -2.104569 -0.494929 1.071804 2013-01-04 0.721555 -0.706771 -1.039575 0.271860 Selection by Label
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For getting a cross section using a label
In [26]: df.loc[dates[0]] Out[26]: A 0.469112 B -0.282863 C -1.509059 D -1.135632 Name: 2013-01-01 00:00:00, dtype: float64 Selecting on a multi-axis by label
In [27]: df.loc[:,['A','B']] Out[27]: A B 2013-01-01 0.469112 -0.282863 2013-01-02 1.212112 -0.173215 2013-01-03 -0.861849 -2.104569 2013-01-04 0.721555 -0.706771 2013-01-05 -0.424972 0.567020 2013-01-06 -0.673690 0.113648 Showing label slicing, both endpoints are included
In [28]: df.loc['20130102':'20130104',['A','B']] Out[28]: A B 2013-01-02 1.212112 -0.173215 2013-01-03 -0.861849 -2.104569 2013-01-04 0.721555 -0.706771 Reduction in the dimensions of the returned object
In [29]: df.loc['20130102',['A','B']] Out[29]: A 1.212112 B -0.173215 Name: 2013-01-02 00:00:00, dtype: float64 For getting a scalar value
In [30]: df.loc[dates[0],'A'] Out[30]: 0.46911229990718628 For getting fast access to a scalar (equiv to the prior method)
In [31]: df.at[dates[0],'A'] Out[31]: 0.46911229990718628 Selection by Position
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Select via the position of the passed integers
In [32]: df.iloc[3] Out[32]: A 0.721555 B -0.706771 C -1.039575 D 0.271860 Name: 2013-01-04 00:00:00, dtype: float64 By integer slices, acting similar to numpy/python
In [33]: df.iloc[3:5,0:2] Out[33]: A B 2013-01-04 0.721555 -0.706771 2013-01-05 -0.424972 0.567020 By lists of integer position locations, similar to the numpy/python style
In [34]: df.iloc[[1,2,4],[0,2]] Out[34]: A C 2013-01-02 1.212112 0.119209 2013-01-03 -0.861849 -0.494929 2013-01-05 -0.424972 0.276232 For slicing rows explicitly
In [35]: df.iloc[1:3,:] Out[35]: A B C D 2013-01-02 1.212112 -0.173215 0.119209 -1.044236 2013-01-03 -0.861849 -2.104569 -0.494929 1.071804 For slicing columns explicitly
In [36]: df.iloc[:,1:3] Out[36]: B C 2013-01-01 -0.282863 -1.509059 2013-01-02 -0.173215 0.119209 2013-01-03 -2.104569 -0.494929 2013-01-04 -0.706771 -1.039575 2013-01-05 0.567020 0.276232 2013-01-06 0.113648 -1.478427 For getting a value explicitly
In [37]: df.iloc[1,1] Out[37]: -0.17321464905330858 For getting fast access to a scalar (equiv to the prior method)
In [38]: df.iat[1,1] Out[38]: -0.17321464905330858 Boolean Indexing
Using a single column’s values to select data.
In [39]: df[df.A > 0] Out[39]: A B C D 2013-01-01 0.469112 -0.282863 -1.509059 -1.135632 2013-01-02 1.212112 -0.173215 0.119209 -1.044236 2013-01-04 0.721555 -0.706771 -1.039575 0.271860 A where operation for getting.
In [40]: df[df > 0] Out[40]: A B C D 2013-01-01 0.469112 NaN NaN NaN 2013-01-02 1.212112 NaN 0.119209 NaN 2013-01-03 NaN NaN NaN 1.071804 2013-01-04 0.721555 NaN NaN 0.271860 2013-01-05 NaN 0.567020 0.276232 NaN 2013-01-06 NaN 0.113648 NaN 0.524988 Using the method for filtering:
In [41]: df2 = df.copy() In [42]: df2['E'] = ['one', 'one','two','three','four','three'] In [43]: df2 Out[43]: A B C D E 2013-01-01 0.469112 -0.282863 -1.509059 -1.135632 one 2013-01-02 1.212112 -0.173215 0.119209 -1.044236 one 2013-01-03 -0.861849 -2.104569 -0.494929 1.071804 two 2013-01-04 0.721555 -0.706771 -1.039575 0.271860 three 2013-01-05 -0.424972 0.567020 0.276232 -1.087401 four 2013-01-06 -0.673690 0.113648 -1.478427 0.524988 three In [44]: df2[df2['E'].isin(['two','four'])] Out[44]: A B C D E 2013-01-03 -0.861849 -2.104569 -0.494929 1.071804 two 2013-01-05 -0.424972 0.567020 0.276232 -1.087401 four Setting
Setting a new column automatically aligns the data by the indexes
In [45]: s1 = pd.Series([1,2,3,4,5,6], index=pd.date_range('20130102', periods=6)) In [46]: s1 Out[46]: 2013-01-02 1 2013-01-03 2 2013-01-04 3 2013-01-05 4 2013-01-06 5 2013-01-07 6 Freq: D, dtype: int64 In [47]: df['F'] = s1 Setting values by label
In [48]: df.at[dates[0],'A'] = 0 Setting values by position
In [49]: df.iat[0,1] = 0 Setting by assigning with a numpy array
In [50]: df.loc[:,'D'] = np.array([5] * len(df)) The result of the prior setting operations
In [51]: dfOut[51]: A B C D F2013-01-01 0.000000 0.000000 -1.509059 5 NaN2013-01-02 1.212112 -0.173215 0.119209 5 1.0 2013-01-03 -0.861849 -2.104569 -0.494929 5 2.0 2013-01-04 0.721555 -0.706771 -1.039575 5 3.0 2013-01-05 -0.424972 0.567020 0.276232 5 4.0 2013-01-06 -0.673690 0.113648 -1.478427 5 5.0 A where operation with setting.
In [52]: df2 = df.copy() In [53]: df2[df2 > 0] = -df2 In [54]: df2 Out[54]: A B C D F 2013-01-01 0.000000 0.000000 -1.509059 -5 NaN 2013-01-02 -1.212112 -0.173215 -0.119209 -5 -1.0 2013-01-03 -0.861849 -2.104569 -0.494929 -5 -2.0 2013-01-04 -0.721555 -0.706771 -1.039575 -5 -3.0 2013-01-05 -0.424972 -0.567020 -0.276232 -5 -4.0 2013-01-06 -0.673690 -0.113648 -1.478427 -5 -5.0 Missing Data
pandas primarily uses the value np.nan to represent missing data. It is by default not included in computations. See the
Reindexing allows you to change/add/delete the index on a specified axis. This returns a copy of the data.
In [55]: df1 = df.reindex(index=dates[0:4], columns=list(df.columns) + ['E']) In [56]: df1.loc[dates[0]:dates[1],'E'] = 1 In [57]: df1 Out[57]: A B C D F E 2013-01-01 0.000000 0.000000 -1.509059 5 NaN 1.0 2013-01-02 1.212112 -0.173215 0.119209 5 1.0 1.0 2013-01-03 -0.861849 -2.104569 -0.494929 5 2.0 NaN 2013-01-04 0.721555 -0.706771 -1.039575 5 3.0 NaN To drop any rows that have missing data.
In [58]: df1.dropna(how='any') Out[58]: A B C D F E 2013-01-02 1.212112 -0.173215 0.119209 5 1.0 1.0 Filling missing data
In [59]: df1.fillna(value=5) Out[59]: A B C D F E 2013-01-01 0.000000 0.000000 -1.509059 5 5.0 1.0 2013-01-02 1.212112 -0.173215 0.119209 5 1.0 1.0 2013-01-03 -0.861849 -2.104569 -0.494929 5 2.0 5.0 2013-01-04 0.721555 -0.706771 -1.039575 5 3.0 5.0 To get the boolean mask where values are nan
In [60]: pd.isnull(df1) Out[60]: A B C D F E 2013-01-01 False False False False True False 2013-01-02 False False False False False False 2013-01-03 False False False False False True 2013-01-04 False False False False False True Operations
See the
Stats
Operations in general exclude missing data.
Performing a descriptive statistic
In [61]: df.mean()Out[61]: A -0.004474 B -0.383981 C -0.687758 D 5.000000 F 3.000000 dtype: float64 Same operation on the other axis
In [62]: df.mean(1) Out[62]: 2013-01-01 0.872735 2013-01-02 1.431621 2013-01-03 0.707731 2013-01-04 1.395042 2013-01-05 1.883656 2013-01-06 1.592306 Freq: D, dtype: float64 Operating with objects that have different dimensionality and need alignment. In addition, pandas automatically broadcasts along the specified dimension.
In [63]: s = pd.Series([1,3,5,np.nan,6,8], index=dates).shift(2) In [64]: s Out[64]: 2013-01-01 NaN 2013-01-02 NaN 2013-01-03 1.0 2013-01-04 3.0 2013-01-05 5.0 2013-01-06 NaN Freq: D, dtype: float64 In [65]: df.sub(s, axis='index') Out[65]: A B C D F 2013-01-01 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 2013-01-02 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 2013-01-03 -1.861849 -3.104569 -1.494929 4.0 1.0 2013-01-04 -2.278445 -3.706771 -4.039575 2.0 0.0 2013-01-05 -5.424972 -4.432980 -4.723768 0.0 -1.0 2013-01-06 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN Apply
Applying functions to the data
In [66]: df.apply(np.cumsum) Out[66]: A B C D F 2013-01-01 0.000000 0.000000 -1.509059 5 NaN 2013-01-02 1.212112 -0.173215 -1.389850 10 1.0 2013-01-03 0.350263 -2.277784 -1.884779 15 3.0 2013-01-04 1.071818 -2.984555 -2.924354 20 6.0 2013-01-05 0.646846 -2.417535 -2.648122 25 10.0 2013-01-06 -0.026844 -2.303886 -4.126549 30 15.0 In [67]: df.apply(lambda x: x.max() - x.min()) Out[67]: A 2.073961 B 2.671590 C 1.785291 D 0.000000 F 4.000000 dtype: float64 Histogramming
See more at
In [68]: s = pd.Series(np.random.randint(0, 7, size=10)) In [69]: s Out[69]: 0 4 1 2 2 1 3 2 4 6 5 4 6 4 7 6 8 4 9 4 dtype: int64 In [70]: s.value_counts() Out[70]: 4 5 6 2 2 2 1 1 dtype: int64 String Methods
Series is equipped with a set of string processing methods in the str attribute that make it easy to operate on each element of the array, as in the code snippet below. Note that pattern-matching in str generally uses by default (and in some cases always uses them). See more at .
In [71]: s = pd.Series(['A', 'B', 'C', 'Aaba', 'Baca', np.nan, 'CABA', 'dog', 'cat']) In [72]: s.str.lower() Out[72]: 0 a 1 b 2 c 3 aaba 4 baca 5 NaN 6 caba 7 dog 8 cat dtype: object Merge
Concat
pandas provides various facilities for easily combining together Series, DataFrame, and Panel objects with various kinds of set logic for the indexes and relational algebra functionality in the case of join / merge-type operations.
See the
Concatenating pandas objects together with :
In [73]: df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(10, 4)) In [74]: df Out[74]: 0 1 2 3 0 -0.548702 1.467327 -1.015962 -0.483075 1 1.637550 -1.217659 -0.291519 -1.745505 2 -0.263952 0.991460 -0.919069 0.266046 3 -0.709661 1.669052 1.037882 -1.705775 4 -0.919854 -0.042379 1.247642 -0.009920 5 0.290213 0.495767 0.362949 1.548106 6 -1.131345 -0.089329 0.337863 -0.945867 7 -0.932132 1.956030 0.017587 -0.016692 8 -0.575247 0.254161 -1.143704 0.215897 9 1.193555 -0.077118 -0.408530 -0.862495 # break it into pieces In [75]: pieces = [df[:3], df[3:7], df[7:]] In [76]: pd.concat(pieces) Out[76]: 0 1 2 3 0 -0.548702 1.467327 -1.015962 -0.483075 1 1.637550 -1.217659 -0.291519 -1.745505 2 -0.263952 0.991460 -0.919069 0.266046 3 -0.709661 1.669052 1.037882 -1.705775 4 -0.919854 -0.042379 1.247642 -0.009920 5 0.290213 0.495767 0.362949 1.548106 6 -1.131345 -0.089329 0.337863 -0.945867 7 -0.932132 1.956030 0.017587 -0.016692 8 -0.575247 0.254161 -1.143704 0.215897 9 1.193555 -0.077118 -0.408530 -0.862495 Join
SQL style merges. See the
In [77]: left = pd.DataFrame({ 'key': ['foo', 'foo'], 'lval': [1, 2]}) In [78]: right = pd.DataFrame({ 'key': ['foo', 'foo'], 'rval': [4, 5]}) In [79]: left Out[79]: key lval 0 foo 1 1 foo 2 In [80]: right Out[80]: key rval 0 foo 4 1 foo 5 In [81]: pd.merge(left, right, on='key') Out[81]: key lval rval 0 foo 1 4 1 foo 1 5 2 foo 2 4 3 foo 2 5 Append
Append rows to a dataframe. See the
In [82]: df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(8, 4), columns=['A','B','C','D']) In [83]: df Out[83]: A B C D 0 1.346061 1.511763 1.627081 -0.990582 1 -0.441652 1.211526 0.268520 0.024580 2 -1.577585 0.396823 -0.105381 -0.532532 3 1.453749 1.208843 -0.080952 -0.264610 4 -0.727965 -0.589346 0.339969 -0.693205 5 -0.339355 0.593616 0.884345 1.591431 6 0.141809 0.220390 0.435589 0.192451 7 -0.096701 0.803351 1.715071 -0.708758 In [84]: s = df.iloc[3] In [85]: df.append(s, ignore_index=True) Out[85]: A B C D 0 1.346061 1.511763 1.627081 -0.990582 1 -0.441652 1.211526 0.268520 0.024580 2 -1.577585 0.396823 -0.105381 -0.532532 3 1.453749 1.208843 -0.080952 -0.264610 4 -0.727965 -0.589346 0.339969 -0.693205 5 -0.339355 0.593616 0.884345 1.591431 6 0.141809 0.220390 0.435589 0.192451 7 -0.096701 0.803351 1.715071 -0.708758 8 1.453749 1.208843 -0.080952 -0.264610 Grouping
By “group by” we are referring to a process involving one or more of the following steps
- Splitting the data into groups based on some criteria
- Applying a function to each group independently
- Combining the results into a data structure
See the
In [86]: df = pd.DataFrame({ 'A' : ['foo', 'bar', 'foo', 'bar', ....: 'foo', 'bar', 'foo', 'foo'], ....: 'B' : ['one', 'one', 'two', 'three', ....: 'two', 'two', 'one', 'three'], ....: 'C' : np.random.randn(8), ....: 'D' : np.random.randn(8)}) ....: In [87]: df Out[87]: A B C D 0 foo one -1.202872 -0.055224 1 bar one -1.814470 2.395985 2 foo two 1.018601 1.552825 3 bar three -0.595447 0.166599 4 foo two 1.395433 0.047609 5 bar two -0.392670 -0.136473 6 foo one 0.007207 -0.561757 7 foo three 1.928123 -1.623033 Grouping and then applying a function sum to the resulting groups.
In [88]: df.groupby('A').sum() Out[88]: C D A bar -2.802588 2.42611 foo 3.146492 -0.63958 Grouping by multiple columns forms a hierarchical index, which we then apply the function.
In [89]: df.groupby(['A','B']).sum() Out[89]: C D A B bar one -1.814470 2.395985 three -0.595447 0.166599 two -0.392670 -0.136473 foo one -1.195665 -0.616981 three 1.928123 -1.623033 two 2.414034 1.600434 Reshaping
See the sections on and .
Stack
In [90]: tuples = list(zip(*[['bar', 'bar', 'baz', 'baz', ....: 'foo', 'foo', 'qux', 'qux'], ....: ['one', 'two', 'one', 'two', ....: 'one', 'two', 'one', 'two']])) ....: In [91]: index = pd.MultiIndex.from_tuples(tuples, names=['first', 'second']) In [92]: df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(8, 2), index=index, columns=['A', 'B']) In [93]: df2 = df[:4] In [94]: df2 Out[94]: A B first second bar one 0.029399 -0.542108 two 0.282696 -0.087302 baz one -1.575170 1.771208 two 0.816482 1.100230 The method “compresses” a level in the DataFrame’s columns.
In [95]: stacked = df2.stack() In [96]: stacked Out[96]: first second bar one A 0.029399 B -0.542108 two A 0.282696 B -0.087302 baz one A -1.575170 B 1.771208 two A 0.816482 B 1.100230 dtype: float64 With a “stacked” DataFrame or Series (having a MultiIndex as the index), the inverse operation of is , which by default unstacks the last level:
In [97]: stacked.unstack()Out[97]: A B first second bar one 0.029399 -0.542108 two 0.282696 -0.087302 baz one -1.575170 1.771208 two 0.816482 1.100230 In [98]: stacked.unstack(1) Out[98]: second one two first bar A 0.029399 0.282696 B -0.542108 -0.087302 baz A -1.575170 0.816482 B 1.771208 1.100230 In [99]: stacked.unstack(0) Out[99]: first bar baz second one A 0.029399 -1.575170 B -0.542108 1.771208 two A 0.282696 0.816482 B -0.087302 1.100230 Pivot Tables
See the section on .
In [100]: df = pd.DataFrame({ 'A' : ['one', 'one', 'two', 'three'] * 3, .....: 'B' : ['A', 'B', 'C'] * 4, .....: 'C' : ['foo', 'foo', 'foo', 'bar', 'bar', 'bar'] * 2, .....: 'D' : np.random.randn(12), .....: 'E' : np.random.randn(12)}) .....: In [101]: df Out[101]: A B C D E 0 one A foo 1.418757 -0.179666 1 one B foo -1.879024 1.291836 2 two C foo 0.536826 -0.009614 3 three A bar 1.006160 0.392149 4 one B bar -0.029716 0.264599 5 one C bar -1.146178 -0.057409 6 two A foo 0.100900 -1.425638 7 three B foo -1.035018 1.024098 8 one C foo 0.314665 -0.106062 9 one A bar -0.773723 1.824375 10 two B bar -1.170653 0.595974 11 three C bar 0.648740 1.167115 We can produce pivot tables from this data very easily:
In [102]: pd.pivot_table(df, values='D', index=['A', 'B'], columns=['C']) Out[102]: C bar foo A B one A -0.773723 1.418757 B -0.029716 -1.879024 C -1.146178 0.314665 three A 1.006160 NaN B NaN -1.035018 C 0.648740 NaN two A NaN 0.100900 B -1.170653 NaN C NaN 0.536826 Time Series
pandas has simple, powerful, and efficient functionality for performing resampling operations during frequency conversion (e.g., converting secondly data into 5-minutely data). This is extremely common in, but not limited to, financial applications. See the
In [103]: rng = pd.date_range('1/1/2012', periods=100, freq='S') In [104]: ts = pd.Series(np.random.randint(0, 500, len(rng)), index=rng) In [105]: ts.resample('5Min').sum() Out[105]: 2012-01-01 25083 Freq: 5T, dtype: int64 Time zone representation
In [106]: rng = pd.date_range('3/6/2012 00:00', periods=5, freq='D') In [107]: ts = pd.Series(np.random.randn(len(rng)), rng) In [108]: ts Out[108]: 2012-03-06 0.464000 2012-03-07 0.227371 2012-03-08 -0.496922 2012-03-09 0.306389 2012-03-10 -2.290613 Freq: D, dtype: float64 In [109]: ts_utc = ts.tz_localize('UTC') In [110]: ts_utc Out[110]: 2012-03-06 00:00:00+00:00 0.464000 2012-03-07 00:00:00+00:00 0.227371 2012-03-08 00:00:00+00:00 -0.496922 2012-03-09 00:00:00+00:00 0.306389 2012-03-10 00:00:00+00:00 -2.290613 Freq: D, dtype: float64 Convert to another time zone
In [111]: ts_utc.tz_convert('US/Eastern') Out[111]: 2012-03-05 19:00:00-05:00 0.464000 2012-03-06 19:00:00-05:00 0.227371 2012-03-07 19:00:00-05:00 -0.496922 2012-03-08 19:00:00-05:00 0.306389 2012-03-09 19:00:00-05:00 -2.290613 Freq: D, dtype: float64 Converting between time span representations
In [112]: rng = pd.date_range('1/1/2012', periods=5, freq='M') In [113]: ts = pd.Series(np.random.randn(len(rng)), index=rng) In [114]: ts Out[114]: 2012-01-31 -1.134623 2012-02-29 -1.561819 2012-03-31 -0.260838 2012-04-30 0.281957 2012-05-31 1.523962 Freq: M, dtype: float64 In [115]: ps = ts.to_period() In [116]: ps Out[116]: 2012-01 -1.134623 2012-02 -1.561819 2012-03 -0.260838 2012-04 0.281957 2012-05 1.523962 Freq: M, dtype: float64 In [117]: ps.to_timestamp() Out[117]: 2012-01-01 -1.134623 2012-02-01 -1.561819 2012-03-01 -0.260838 2012-04-01 0.281957 2012-05-01 1.523962 Freq: MS, dtype: float64 Converting between period and timestamp enables some convenient arithmetic functions to be used. In the following example, we convert a quarterly frequency with year ending in November to 9am of the end of the month following the quarter end:
In [118]: prng = pd.period_range('1990Q1', '2000Q4', freq='Q-NOV') In [119]: ts = pd.Series(np.random.randn(len(prng)), prng) In [120]: ts.index = (prng.asfreq('M', 'e') + 1).asfreq('H', 's') + 9 In [121]: ts.head() Out[121]: 1990-03-01 09:00 -0.902937 1990-06-01 09:00 0.068159 1990-09-01 09:00 -0.057873 1990-12-01 09:00 -0.368204 1991-03-01 09:00 -1.144073 Freq: H, dtype: float64 Categoricals
Since version 0.15, pandas can include categorical data in a DataFrame. For full docs, see the and the .
In [122]: df = pd.DataFrame({ "id":[1,2,3,4,5,6], "raw_grade":['a', 'b', 'b', 'a', 'a', 'e']}) Convert the raw grades to a categorical data type.
In [123]: df["grade"] = df["raw_grade"].astype("category") In [124]: df["grade"] Out[124]: 0 a 1 b 2 b 3 a 4 a 5 e Name: grade, dtype: category Categories (3, object): [a, b, e] Rename the categories to more meaningful names (assigning to Series.cat.categories is inplace!)
In [125]: df["grade"].cat.categories = ["very good", "good", "very bad"] Reorder the categories and simultaneously add the missing categories (methods under Series .cat return a new Series per default).
In [126]: df["grade"] = df["grade"].cat.set_categories(["very bad", "bad", "medium", "good", "very good"]) In [127]: df["grade"] Out[127]: 0 very good 1 good 2 good 3 very good 4 very good 5 very bad Name: grade, dtype: category Categories (5, object): [very bad, bad, medium, good, very good] Sorting is per order in the categories, not lexical order.
In [128]: df.sort_values(by="grade") Out[128]: id raw_grade grade 5 6 e very bad 1 2 b good 2 3 b good 0 1 a very good 3 4 a very good 4 5 a very good Grouping by a categorical column shows also empty categories.
In [129]: df.groupby("grade").size() Out[129]: grade very bad 1 bad 0 medium 0 good 2 very good 3 dtype: int64 Plotting
docs.
In [130]: ts = pd.Series(np.random.randn(1000), index=pd.date_range('1/1/2000', periods=1000)) In [131]: ts = ts.cumsum() In [132]: ts.plot() Out[132]: 
On DataFrame, is a convenience to plot all of the columns with labels:
In [133]: df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(1000, 4), index=ts.index, .....: columns=['A', 'B', 'C', 'D']) .....: In [134]: df = df.cumsum() In [135]: plt.figure(); df.plot(); plt.legend(loc='best') Out[135]: 
Getting Data In/Out
CSV
In [136]: df.to_csv('foo.csv') In [137]: pd.read_csv('foo.csv') Out[137]: Unnamed: 0 A B C D 0 2000-01-01 0.266457 -0.399641 -0.219582 1.186860 1 2000-01-02 -1.170732 -0.345873 1.653061 -0.282953 2 2000-01-03 -1.734933 0.530468 2.060811 -0.515536 3 2000-01-04 -1.555121 1.452620 0.239859 -1.156896 4 2000-01-05 0.578117 0.511371 0.103552 -2.428202 5 2000-01-06 0.478344 0.449933 -0.741620 -1.962409 6 2000-01-07 1.235339 -0.091757 -1.543861 -1.084753 .. ... ... ... ... ... 993 2002-09-20 -10.628548 -9.153563 -7.883146 28.313940 994 2002-09-21 -10.390377 -8.727491 -6.399645 30.914107 995 2002-09-22 -8.985362 -8.485624 -4.669462 31.367740 996 2002-09-23 -9.558560 -8.781216 -4.499815 30.518439 997 2002-09-24 -9.902058 -9.340490 -4.386639 30.105593 998 2002-09-25 -10.216020 -9.480682 -3.933802 29.758560 999 2002-09-26 -11.856774 -10.671012 -3.216025 29.369368 [1000 rows x 5 columns] HDF5
Reading and writing to
Writing to a HDF5 Store
In [138]: df.to_hdf('foo.h5','df') Reading from a HDF5 Store
In [139]: pd.read_hdf('foo.h5','df') Out[139]: A B C D 2000-01-01 0.266457 -0.399641 -0.219582 1.186860 2000-01-02 -1.170732 -0.345873 1.653061 -0.282953 2000-01-03 -1.734933 0.530468 2.060811 -0.515536 2000-01-04 -1.555121 1.452620 0.239859 -1.156896 2000-01-05 0.578117 0.511371 0.103552 -2.428202 2000-01-06 0.478344 0.449933 -0.741620 -1.962409 2000-01-07 1.235339 -0.091757 -1.543861 -1.084753 ... ... ... ... ... 2002-09-20 -10.628548 -9.153563 -7.883146 28.313940 2002-09-21 -10.390377 -8.727491 -6.399645 30.914107 2002-09-22 -8.985362 -8.485624 -4.669462 31.367740 2002-09-23 -9.558560 -8.781216 -4.499815 30.518439 2002-09-24 -9.902058 -9.340490 -4.386639 30.105593 2002-09-25 -10.216020 -9.480682 -3.933802 29.758560 2002-09-26 -11.856774 -10.671012 -3.216025 29.369368 [1000 rows x 4 columns] Excel
Reading and writing to
Writing to an excel file
In [140]: df.to_excel('foo.xlsx', sheet_name='Sheet1') Reading from an excel file
In [141]: pd.read_excel('foo.xlsx', 'Sheet1', index_col=None, na_values=['NA']) Out[141]: A B C D 2000-01-01 0.266457 -0.399641 -0.219582 1.186860 2000-01-02 -1.170732 -0.345873 1.653061 -0.282953 2000-01-03 -1.734933 0.530468 2.060811 -0.515536 2000-01-04 -1.555121 1.452620 0.239859 -1.156896 2000-01-05 0.578117 0.511371 0.103552 -2.428202 2000-01-06 0.478344 0.449933 -0.741620 -1.962409 2000-01-07 1.235339 -0.091757 -1.543861 -1.084753 ... ... ... ... ... 2002-09-20 -10.628548 -9.153563 -7.883146 28.313940 2002-09-21 -10.390377 -8.727491 -6.399645 30.914107 2002-09-22 -8.985362 -8.485624 -4.669462 31.367740 2002-09-23 -9.558560 -8.781216 -4.499815 30.518439 2002-09-24 -9.902058 -9.340490 -4.386639 30.105593 2002-09-25 -10.216020 -9.480682 -3.933802 29.758560 2002-09-26 -11.856774 -10.671012 -3.216025 29.369368 [1000 rows x 4 columns] Gotchas
If you are trying an operation and you see an exception like:
>>> if pd.Series([False, True, False]): print("I was true") Traceback ... ValueError: The truth value of an array is ambiguous. Use a.empty, a.any() or a.all(). See for an explanation and what to do.
See as well.