I cannot solve a very easy/simple problem in pandas. :(
I have the following table:
df = pd.DataFrame(data=dict(a=[1, 1, 1,2, 2, 3,1], b=["A", "A","B","A", "B", "A","A"]))
df
Out[96]:
a b
0 1 A
1 1 A
2 1 B
3 2 A
4 2 B
5 3 A
6 1 A
I would like to make an incrementing ID of each grouped (grouped by columns a and b) unique item. So the result would like like this (column c):
Out[98]:
a b c
0 1 A 1
1 1 A 1
2 1 B 2
3 2 A 3
4 2 B 4
5 3 A 5
6 1 A 1
I tried with:
df.groupby(["a", "b"]).nunique().cumsum().reset_index()
Result:
Out[105]:
a b c
0 1 A 1
1 1 B 2
2 2 A 3
3 2 B 4
4 3 A 5
Unfortunatelly this works only for the grouped by dataset and not on the original dataset. As you can see in the original table I have 7 rows and the grouped by returns only 5.
So could someone please help me on how to get the desired table:
a b c
0 1 A 1
1 1 A 1
2 1 B 2
3 2 A 3
4 2 B 4
5 3 A 5
6 1 A 1
Thank you in advance!
groupby + ngroupdf['c'] = df.groupby(['a', 'b']).ngroup() + 1
a b c
0 1 A 1
1 1 A 1
2 1 B 2
3 2 A 3
4 2 B 4
5 3 A 5
6 1 A 1