I'd like to convert a Pandas DataFrame that is derived from a pivot table into a row representation as shown below.
This is where I'm at:
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
df = pd.DataFrame({
'goods': ['a', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'b'],
'stock': [5, 10, 30, 40, 10],
'category': ['c1', 'c2', 'c1', 'c2', 'c1'],
'date': pd.to_datetime(['2014-01-01', '2014-02-01', '2014-01-06', '2014-02-09', '2014-03-09'])
})
# we don't care about year in this example
df['month'] = df['date'].map(lambda x: x.month)
piv = df.pivot_table(["stock"], "month", ["goods", "category"], aggfunc="sum")
piv = piv.reindex(np.arange(piv.index[0], piv.index[-1] + 1))
piv = piv.ffill(axis=0)
piv = piv.fillna(0)
print piv
which results in
stock
goods a b
category c1 c2 c1 c2
month
1 5 0 30 0
2 5 10 30 40
3 5 10 10 40
And this is where I want to get to.
goods category month stock
a c1 1 5
a c1 2 0
a c1 3 0
a c2 1 0
a c2 2 10
a c2 3 0
b c1 1 30
b c1 2 0
b c1 3 10
b c2 1 0
b c2 2 40
b c2 3 0
Previously, I used
piv = piv.stack()
piv = piv.reset_index()
print piv
to get rid of the multi-indexes, but this results in this because I pivot now on two columns (["goods", "category"]
):
month category stock
goods a b
0 1 c1 5 30
1 1 c2 0 0
2 2 c1 5 30
3 2 c2 10 40
4 3 c1 5 10
5 3 c2 10 40
Does anyone know how I can get rid of the multi-index in the column and get the result into a DataFrame of the exemplified format?
>>> piv.unstack().reset_index().drop('level_0', axis=1)
goods category month 0
0 a c1 1 5
1 a c1 2 5
2 a c1 3 5
3 a c2 1 0
4 a c2 2 10
5 a c2 3 10
6 b c1 1 30
7 b c1 2 30
8 b c1 3 10
9 b c2 1 0
10 b c2 2 40
11 b c2 3 40
then all you need is to change last column name from 0
to stock
.