Count unique values with pandas per groups

Question

I need to count unique ID values in every domain I have data

ID, domain
123, 'vk.com'
123, 'vk.com'
123, 'twitter.com'
456, 'vk.com'
456, 'facebook.com'
456, 'vk.com'
456, 'google.com'
789, 'twitter.com'
789, 'vk.com'

I try df.groupby(['domain', 'ID']).count() But I want to get

domain, count
vk.com   3
twitter.com   2
facebook.com   1
google.com   1

Answer 1

You need nunique:

df = df.groupby('domain')['ID'].nunique()

print (df)
domain
'facebook.com'    1
'google.com'      1
'twitter.com'     2
'vk.com'          3
Name: ID, dtype: int64

If you need to strip ' characters:

df = df.ID.groupby([df.domain.str.strip("'")]).nunique()
print (df)
domain
facebook.com    1
google.com      1
twitter.com     2
vk.com          3
Name: ID, dtype: int64

Or as Jon Clements commented:

df.groupby(df.domain.str.strip("'"))['ID'].nunique()

You can retain the column name like this:

df = df.groupby(by='domain', as_index=False).agg({'ID': pd.Series.nunique})
print(df)
    domain  ID
0       fb   1
1      ggl   1
2  twitter   2
3       vk   3

The difference is that nunique() returns a Series and agg() returns a DataFrame.