pandas Grouping Data using transform to get group-level statistics while preserving the original dataframe
Example
example:
df = pd.DataFrame({'group1' : ['A', 'A', 'A', 'A',
'B', 'B', 'B', 'B'],
'group2' : ['C', 'C', 'C', 'D',
'E', 'E', 'F', 'F'],
'B' : ['one', np.NaN, np.NaN, np.NaN,
np.NaN, 'two', np.NaN, np.NaN],
'C' : [np.NaN, 1, np.NaN, np.NaN,
np.NaN, np.NaN, np.NaN, 4]})
df
Out[34]:
B C group1 group2
0 one NaN A C
1 NaN 1.0 A C
2 NaN NaN A C
3 NaN NaN A D
4 NaN NaN B E
5 two NaN B E
6 NaN NaN B F
7 NaN 4.0 B F
I want to get the count of non-missing observations of B for each combination of group1 and group2. groupby.transform is a very powerful function that does exactly that.
df['count_B']=df.groupby(['group1','group2']).B.transform('count')
df
Out[36]:
B C group1 group2 count_B
0 one NaN A C 1
1 NaN 1.0 A C 1
2 NaN NaN A C 1
3 NaN NaN A D 0
4 NaN NaN B E 1
5 two NaN B E 1
6 NaN NaN B F 0
7 NaN 4.0 B F 0
