How do I create a new column from the output of pandas groupby().sum()?

Question

Trying to create a new column from the groupby calculation. In the code below, I get the correct calculated values for each date (see group below) but when I try to create a new column (df['Data4']) with it I get NaN. So I am trying to create a new column in the dataframe with the sum of Data3 for the all dates and apply that to each date row. For example, 2015-05-08 is in 2 rows (total is 50+5 = 55) and in this new column I would like to have 55 in both of the rows.

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from pandas import DataFrame

df = pd.DataFrame({
    'Date' : ['2015-05-08', '2015-05-07', '2015-05-06', '2015-05-05', '2015-05-08', '2015-05-07', '2015-05-06', '2015-05-05'], 
    'Sym'  : ['aapl', 'aapl', 'aapl', 'aapl', 'aaww', 'aaww', 'aaww', 'aaww'], 
    'Data2': [11, 8, 10, 15, 110, 60, 100, 40],
    'Data3': [5, 8, 6, 1, 50, 100, 60, 120]
})

group = df['Data3'].groupby(df['Date']).sum()

df['Data4'] = group

Answer 1

You want to use transform this will return a Series with the index aligned to the df so you can then add it as a new column:

In [74]:

df = pd.DataFrame({'Date': ['2015-05-08', '2015-05-07', '2015-05-06', '2015-05-05', '2015-05-08', '2015-05-07', '2015-05-06', '2015-05-05'], 'Sym': ['aapl', 'aapl', 'aapl', 'aapl', 'aaww', 'aaww', 'aaww', 'aaww'], 'Data2': [11, 8, 10, 15, 110, 60, 100, 40],'Data3': [5, 8, 6, 1, 50, 100, 60, 120]})
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df['Data4'] = df['Data3'].groupby(df['Date']).transform('sum')
df
Out[74]:
   Data2  Data3        Date   Sym  Data4
0     11      5  2015-05-08  aapl     55
1      8      8  2015-05-07  aapl    108
2     10      6  2015-05-06  aapl     66
3     15      1  2015-05-05  aapl    121
4    110     50  2015-05-08  aaww     55
5     60    100  2015-05-07  aaww    108
6    100     60  2015-05-06  aaww     66
7     40    120  2015-05-05  aaww    121