One last newbie pandas question for the day: How do I generate a table for a single Series?
For example:
my_series = pandas.Series([1,2,2,3,3,3])
pandas.magical_frequency_function( my_series )
>> {
1 : 1,
2 : 2,
3 : 3
}
Lots of googling has led me to Series.describe() and pandas.crosstabs, but neither of these does quite what I need: one variable, counts by categories. Oh, and it'd be nice if it worked for different data types: strings, ints, etc.
Maybe .value_counts()
?
>>> import pandas
>>> my_series = pandas.Series([1,2,2,3,3,3, "fred", 1.8, 1.8])
>>> my_series
0 1
1 2
2 2
3 3
4 3
5 3
6 fred
7 1.8
8 1.8
>>> counts = my_series.value_counts()
>>> counts
3 3
2 2
1.8 2
fred 1
1 1
>>> len(counts)
5
>>> sum(counts)
9
>>> counts["fred"]
1
>>> dict(counts)
{1.8: 2, 2: 2, 3: 3, 1: 1, 'fred': 1}