ValueError: Grouper for <something> not 1-dimensional
I'm have the following code which creates a table and a barplot via seaborn.
#Building a dataframe grouped by the # of Engagement Types
sales_type = sales.groupby('# of Engagement Types').sum()
#Calculating the % of people who bought the course by # engagement types
sales_type['% Sales per Participants'] = round(100*(sales_type['Sales'] / sales_type['Had an Engagement']), 2)
#Calculating the # of people who didn't have any engagements
sales_type.set_value(index=0, col='Had an Engagement', value=sales[sales['Had an Engagement']==0].count()['Sales'])
#Calculating the % of sales for those who didn't have any engagements
sales_type.set_value(index=0, col='% Sales per Participants',
value=round(100 * (sales_type.ix[0, 'Sales'] /
sales[sales['Had an Engagement']==0].count()['Sales']),2))
#Setting the graph image
fig, (ax1) = plt.subplots(nrows=1, ncols=1, figsize=(12,4))
sns.set_style("whitegrid")
# Ploting the histagram for the % of total prospects
ax1 = sns.barplot(x=sales_type.index,y='% Sales per Participants', data=sales_type ,ax=ax1)
ax1.set(ylabel = '%')
ax1.set_title('% Sales per Participants By # of Engagement Types')
#present the table
sales_type.xs(['Had an Engagement', 'Sales','% Sales per Participants'],axis=1).transpose()
#sales_type
I'm using the same code concept for other parameters I have with no issue. However, for one parameter I get an error: "ValueError: Grouper for '' not 1-dimensional" for the line code:
ax1 = sns.barplot(x=sales_type.index,y='% Sales per Participants', data=sales_type ,ax=ax1)
This error occurs although the dataframe doesn't have more than one dimension.
This is the head of the table:
Sales Pre-Ordered / Ordered Book \
# of Engagement Types
0 1.0 0.0
1 20.0 496.0
2 51.0 434.0
3 82.0 248.0
4 71.0 153.0
5 49.0 97.0
6 5.0 24.0
Opted In For / Clicked to Kindle Viewed PLC \
# of Engagement Types
0 0.0 0
1 27034.0 5920
2 6953.0 6022
3 1990.0 1958
4 714.0 746
5 196.0 204
6 24.0 24
# of PLC Engagement Viewed Webinar \
# of Engagement Types
0 0.0 0
1 6434.0 1484
2 7469.0 1521
3 2940.0 1450
4 1381.0 724
5 463.0 198
6 54.0 24
# of Webinars (Live/Replay) \
# of Engagement Types
0 0.0
1 1613.0
2 1730.0
3 1768.0
4 1018.0
5 355.0
6 45.0
OCCC Facebook Group Member Engaged in Cart-Open \
# of Engagement Types
0 0.0 0
1 148.0 160
2 498.0 1206
3 443.0 967
4 356.0 511
5 168.0 177
6 24.0 24
# of Engagement at Cart Open Had an Engagement \
# of Engagement Types
0 0.0 3387
1 189.0 35242
2 1398.0 8317
3 1192.0 2352
4 735.0 801
5 269.0 208
6 40.0 24
Total # of Engagements % Sales per Participants
# of Engagement Types
0 0.0 0.03
1 35914.0 0.06
2 18482.0 0.61
3 8581.0 3.49
4 4357.0 8.86
5 1548.0 23.56
6 211.0 20.83
This is the full error:
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ValueError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-211-f0185fe64c1a> in <module>()
12 sns.set_style("whitegrid")
13 # Ploting the histagram for the % of total prospects
---> 14 ax1 = sns.barplot(x=sales_type.index,y='% Sales per Participants', data=sales_type ,ax=ax1)
15 ax1.set(ylabel = '%')
16 ax1.set_title('% Sales per Participants By # of Engagement Types')
ValueError: Grouper for '<class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'>' not 1-dimensional
I've tried to search the internet and Stack Overflow for this error, but got no results. Does anyone has an idea what's going on?
Answer
Simplified problem
I also ran into this problem, and found the cause of it and the obvious solution
To recreate this:
df = pd.DataFrame({"foo": [1,2,3], "bar": [1,2,3]})
df.rename(columns={'foo': 'bar'}, inplace=True)
bar bar
0 1 1
1 2 2
2 3 3
df.groupby('bar')
ValueError: Grouper for 'bar' not 1-dimensional
Just like a lot of cryptic pandas errors, this one too stems from having two columns with the same name.
Figure out which one you want to use, rename or drop the other column and redo the operation.
Solution
Rename the columns like this
df.columns = ['foo', 'bar']
foo bar
0 1 1
1 2 2
2 3 3
df.groupby('bar')
<pandas.core.groupby.DataFrameGroupBy object at 0x1066dd950>