I am working with pandas dataframes that are essentially time series like this:
level
Date
1976-01-01 409.67
1976-02-01 409.58
1976-03-01 409.66
…
What I want to have, is multiple indexes/headers for the level column, like so:
Station1 #Name of the datasource
43.1977317,-4.6473648,5 #Lat/Lon of the source
Precip #Type of data
Date
1976-01-01 409.67
1976-02-01 409.58
1976-03-01 409.66
…
So essentially I am searching for something like
Mydata.columns.level1 = ['Station1']
Mydata.columns.level2 = ['Lat','Lon']
Mydata.columns.level3 = ['Precip']
Reason being that a single location can have multiple datasets, and that I want to be able to pick either all data from one location, or all data of a certain type from all locations, from a subsequent merged, big dataframe.
I can set up an example dataframe from the pandas documentation, and test my selection, but with my real data, I need a different way to set the indexes as in the example.
Example:
header = [np.array(['location','location','location','location2','location2','location2']),
np.array(['S1','S2','S3','S1','S2','S3'])]
df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(5, 6), index=['a','b','c','d','e'], columns=header )
Then I can pick data by data type:
df.loc(axis=1)[:,'S1']
location location2
S1 S1
a -1.469932 -0.317262
b 0.047170 0.601172
c -0.257479 -0.242490
d 0.832949 -0.070383
e -0.628549 -2.319316
or location:
df['location']
S1 S2 S3
a -1.469932 -1.544511 -1.373463
b 0.047170 -0.339423 1.351253
c -0.257479 1.140829 0.188291
d 0.832949 0.098170 -0.818513
e -0.628549 -0.158419 0.366167
Or am I just looking for the wrong terminology? Because 90% of all examples in the documentation, and the questions here only treat the vertical "stuff" (dates or abcde in my case) as index, and a quick df.index.values on my test data also just gets me the vertical array(['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'], dtype=object).
You can use multiIndex to give multiple columns with names for each level. Use MultiIndex.from_product() to make multiIndex from cartesian products of multiple iterables.
header = pd.MultiIndex.from_product([['location1','location2'],
['S1','S2','S3']],
names=['loc','S'])
df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(5, 6),
index=['a','b','c','d','e'],
columns=header)
Two levels will be loc and S.
df
loc location1 location2
S S1 S2 S3 S1 S2 S3
a -1.245988 0.858071 -1.433669 0.105300 -0.630531 -0.148113
b 1.132016 0.318813 0.949564 -0.349722 -0.904325 0.443206
c -0.017991 0.032925 0.274248 0.326454 -0.108982 0.567472
d 2.363533 -1.676141 0.562893 0.967338 -1.071719 -0.321113
e 1.921324 0.110705 0.023244 -0.432196 0.172972 -0.50368
Now you can use xs to slice the dateframe based on levels.
df.xs('location1',level='loc',axis=1)
S S1 S2 S3
a -1.245988 0.858071 -1.433669
b 1.132016 0.318813 0.949564
c -0.017991 0.032925 0.274248
d 2.363533 -1.676141 0.562893
e 1.921324 0.110705 0.02324
df.xs('S1',level='S',axis=1)
loc location1 location2
a -1.245988 0.105300
b 1.132016 -0.349722
c -0.017991 0.326454
d 2.363533 0.967338
e 1.921324 -0.43219