The usage might seems like the code below
out_df = df.select([
pl.col("*"),
pl.col("md5").row_count().over("md5").alias("row_count"),
])
print(out_df)
The data should be like this:
before:
md5
a
a
b
after:
md5 row_count
a 1
a 2
b 1
Maybe Im misunderstanding, as your output has both values 1 and 2 for a. Assuming you meant 2 for both:
You are very close, Polars has .count():
import polars as pl
df = pl.DataFrame({"md5": ["a", "a", "b"]})
out_df = df.select([
pl.col("*"),
pl.col("md5").count().over("md5").alias("row_count"),
])
print(out_df)
Which prints out this:
shape: (3, 2)
┌─────┬───────────┐
│ md5 ┆ row_count │
│ --- ┆ --- │
│ str ┆ u32 │
╞═════╪═══════════╡
│ a ┆ 2 │
├╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ a ┆ 2 │
├╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ b ┆ 1 │
└─────┴───────────┘
If I think I understand correctly, you want to have a count per seen value in the group.
You can do this:
df = pl.DataFrame({"md5": ["a", "a", "b"]})
(df
.with_column(pl.lit(1).alias("ones"))
.select([
pl.all().exclude("ones"),
pl.col("ones").cumsum().over("md5").flatten().alias("row_count")
]))
shape: (3, 2)
┌─────┬───────────┐
│ md5 ┆ row_count │
│ --- ┆ --- │
│ str ┆ i32 │
╞═════╪═══════════╡
│ a ┆ 1 │
├╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ a ┆ 2 │
├╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ b ┆ 1 │
└─────┴───────────┘
We still have to add a dummy column "ones", because (as of polars==0.10.23` we cannot apply a window function over literals. We will add this functionality.
Related
I have a Polars dataframe in the form:
df = pl.DataFrame({'a':[1,2,3], 'b':[['a','b'],['a'],['c','d']]})
┌─────┬────────────┐
│ a ┆ b │
│ --- ┆ --- │
│ i64 ┆ list[str] │
╞═════╪════════════╡
│ 1 ┆ ["a", "b"] │
│ 2 ┆ ["a"] │
│ 3 ┆ ["c", "d"] │
└─────┴────────────┘
I want to convert it to the following form. I plan to save to a parquet file, and query the file (with sql).
┌─────┬─────┐
│ a ┆ b │
│ --- ┆ --- │
│ i64 ┆ str │
╞═════╪═════╡
│ 1 ┆ "a" │
│ 1 ┆ "b" │
│ 2 ┆ "a" │
│ 3 ┆ "c" │
│ 3 ┆ "d" │
└─────┴─────┘
I have seen an answer that works on struct columns, but df.unnest('b') on my data results in the error:
SchemaError: Series of dtype: List(Utf8) != Struct
I also found a github issue that shows list can be converted to a struct, but I can't work out how to do that, or if it applies here.
To decompose column with Lists, you can use .explode() method (doc)
df = pl.DataFrame({'a':[1,2,3], 'b':[['a','b'],['a'],['c','d']]})
df.explode("b")
┌─────┬─────┐
│ a ┆ b │
│ --- ┆ --- │
│ i64 ┆ str │
╞═════╪═════╡
│ 1 ┆ a │
│ 1 ┆ b │
│ 2 ┆ a │
│ 3 ┆ c │
│ 3 ┆ d │
└─────┴─────┘
I would like to do an ordinal encoding of a column. Pandas has the nice and convenient method of pd.factorize(), however, I would like to achieve the same in polars.
df = pl.DataFrame({"a": [5, 8, 10], "b": ["hi", "hello", "hi"]})
┌─────┬───────┐
│ a ┆ b │
│ --- ┆ --- │
│ i64 ┆ str │
╞═════╪═══════╡
│ 5 ┆ hi │
├╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ 8 ┆ hello │
├╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ 10 ┆ hi │
└─────┴───────┘
desired result:
┌─────┬─────┐
│ a ┆ b │
│ --- ┆ --- │
│ i64 ┆ i64 │
╞═════╪═════╡
│ 0 ┆ 0 │
├╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ 1 ┆ 1 │
├╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ 2 ┆ 0 │
└─────┴─────┘
You can join with a dummy DataFrame that contains the unique values and the ordinal encoding you are interested in:
df = pl.DataFrame({"a": [5, 8, 10], "b": ["hi", "hello", "hi"]})
unique = df.select(
pl.col("b").unique(maintain_order=True)
).with_row_count(name="ordinal")
df.join(unique, on="b")
Or you could "misuse" the fact that categorical values are backed by u32 integers.
df.with_column(
pl.col("b").cast(pl.Categorical).to_physical().alias("ordinal")
)
Both methods output:
shape: (3, 3)
┌─────┬───────┬─────────┐
│ a ┆ b ┆ ordinal │
│ --- ┆ --- ┆ --- │
│ i64 ┆ str ┆ u32 │
╞═════╪═══════╪═════════╡
│ 5 ┆ hi ┆ 0 │
├╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ 8 ┆ hello ┆ 1 │
├╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ 10 ┆ hi ┆ 0 │
└─────┴───────┴─────────┘
Here's another way to do it although I doubt it's better than the dummy Dataframe from #ritchie46
df.with_columns([pl.col('b').unique().list().alias('uniq'),
pl.col('b').unique().list().arr.eval(pl.element().rank()).alias('uniqid')]).explode(['uniq','uniqid']).filter(pl.col('b')==pl.col('uniq')).select(pl.exclude('uniq')).with_column(pl.col('uniqid')-1)
There's almost certainly a way to improve this but basically it creates a new column called uniq which is a list of all the unique values of the column as well as uniqid which (I think, and seems to be) the 1-index based order of the values. It then explodes those creating a row for ever value in uniq and then filters out the ones rows that don't equal the column b. Since rank gives the 1-index (rather than 0-index) you have to subtract 1 and exclude the uniq column that we don't care about since it's the same as b.
If the order is not important you could use .rank(method="dense")
>>> df.select(pl.all().rank(method="dense") - 1)
shape: (3, 2)
┌─────┬─────┐
│ a ┆ b │
│ --- ┆ --- │
│ u32 ┆ u32 │
╞═════╪═════╡
│ 0 ┆ 1 │
├╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ 1 ┆ 0 │
├╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ 2 ┆ 1 │
└─────┴─────┘
If it is - you could:
>>> (
... df.with_row_count()
... .with_columns([
... pl.col("row_nr").first()
... .over(col)
... .rank(method="dense")
... .alias(col) - 1
... for col in df.columns
... ])
... .drop("row_nr")
... )
shape: (3, 2)
┌─────┬─────┐
│ a ┆ b │
│ --- ┆ --- │
│ u32 ┆ u32 │
╞═════╪═════╡
│ 0 ┆ 0 │
├╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ 1 ┆ 1 │
├╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ 2 ┆ 0 │
└─────┴─────┘
I have a Polars dataframe like below:
df_cat = pl.DataFrame(
[
pl.Series("a_cat", ["c", "a", "b", "c", "b"], dtype=pl.Categorical),
pl.Series("b_cat", ["F", "G", "E", "G", "G"], dtype=pl.Categorical)
])
print(df_cat)
shape: (5, 2)
┌───────┬───────┐
│ a_cat ┆ b_cat │
│ --- ┆ --- │
│ cat ┆ cat │
╞═══════╪═══════╡
│ c ┆ F │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ a ┆ G │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ b ┆ E │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ c ┆ G │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ b ┆ G │
└───────┴───────┘
The following filter runs perfectly fine:
print(df_cat.filter(pl.col('a_cat') == 'c'))
shape: (2, 2)
┌───────┬───────┐
│ a_cat ┆ b_cat │
│ --- ┆ --- │
│ cat ┆ cat │
╞═══════╪═══════╡
│ c ┆ F │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ c ┆ G │
└───────┴───────┘
What I want is to use a list of string to run the filter more efficiently. So I tried and ended up with the following error message:
print(df_cat.filter(pl.col('a_cat').is_in(['a', 'c'])))
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ComputeError Traceback (most recent call last)
d:\GitRepo\Test2\stockEMD3.ipynb Cell 9 in <cell line: 1>()
----> 1 print(df_cat.filter(pl.col('a_cat').is_in(['c'])))
File c:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\charm3.9\lib\site-packages\polars\internals\dataframe\frame.py:2185, in DataFrame.filter(self, predicate)
2181 if _NUMPY_AVAILABLE and isinstance(predicate, np.ndarray):
2182 predicate = pli.Series(predicate)
2184 return (
-> 2185 self.lazy()
2186 .filter(predicate) # type: ignore[arg-type]
2187 .collect(no_optimization=True, string_cache=False)
2188 )
File c:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\charm3.9\lib\site-packages\polars\internals\lazyframe\frame.py:660, in LazyFrame.collect(self, type_coercion, predicate_pushdown, projection_pushdown, simplify_expression, string_cache, no_optimization, slice_pushdown)
650 projection_pushdown = False
652 ldf = self._ldf.optimization_toggle(
653 type_coercion,
654 predicate_pushdown,
(...)
658 slice_pushdown,
659 )
--> 660 return pli.wrap_df(ldf.collect())
ComputeError: joins/or comparisons on categorical dtypes can only happen if they are created under the same global string cache
From this Stackoverflow link I understand "You need to set a global string cache to compare categoricals created in different columns/lists." but my question is
Why the == one single string filter case works?
What is the proper way to filter a categorical column with a list of string?
Thanks!
Actually, you don't need to set a global string cache to compare strings to Categorical variables. You can use cast to accomplish this.
Let's use this data. I've included the integer values that underlie the Categorical variables to demonstrate something later.
import polars as pl
df_cat = (
pl.DataFrame(
[
pl.Series("a_cat", ["c", "a", "b", "c", "X"], dtype=pl.Categorical),
pl.Series("b_cat", ["F", "G", "E", "S", "X"], dtype=pl.Categorical),
]
)
.with_column(
pl.all().to_physical().suffix('_phys')
)
)
df_cat
shape: (5, 4)
┌───────┬───────┬────────────┬────────────┐
│ a_cat ┆ b_cat ┆ a_cat_phys ┆ b_cat_phys │
│ --- ┆ --- ┆ --- ┆ --- │
│ cat ┆ cat ┆ u32 ┆ u32 │
╞═══════╪═══════╪════════════╪════════════╡
│ c ┆ F ┆ 0 ┆ 0 │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ a ┆ G ┆ 1 ┆ 1 │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ b ┆ E ┆ 2 ┆ 2 │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ c ┆ S ┆ 0 ┆ 3 │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ X ┆ X ┆ 3 ┆ 4 │
└───────┴───────┴────────────┴────────────┘
Comparing a categorical variable to a string
If we cast a Categorical variable back to its string values, we can make any comparison we need. For example:
df_cat.filter(pl.col('a_cat').cast(pl.Utf8).is_in(['a', 'c']))
shape: (3, 4)
┌───────┬───────┬────────────┬────────────┐
│ a_cat ┆ b_cat ┆ a_cat_phys ┆ b_cat_phys │
│ --- ┆ --- ┆ --- ┆ --- │
│ cat ┆ cat ┆ u32 ┆ u32 │
╞═══════╪═══════╪════════════╪════════════╡
│ c ┆ F ┆ 0 ┆ 0 │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ a ┆ G ┆ 1 ┆ 1 │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ c ┆ S ┆ 0 ┆ 3 │
└───────┴───────┴────────────┴────────────┘
Or in a filter step comparing the string values of two Categorical variables that do not share the same string cache.
df_cat.filter(pl.col('a_cat').cast(pl.Utf8) == pl.col('b_cat').cast(pl.Utf8))
shape: (1, 4)
┌───────┬───────┬────────────┬────────────┐
│ a_cat ┆ b_cat ┆ a_cat_phys ┆ b_cat_phys │
│ --- ┆ --- ┆ --- ┆ --- │
│ cat ┆ cat ┆ u32 ┆ u32 │
╞═══════╪═══════╪════════════╪════════════╡
│ X ┆ X ┆ 3 ┆ 4 │
└───────┴───────┴────────────┴────────────┘
Notice that it is the string values being compared (not the integers underlying the two Categorical variables).
The equality operator on Categorical variables
The following statements are equivalent:
df_cat.filter((pl.col('a_cat') == 'a'))
df_cat.filter((pl.col('a_cat').cast(pl.Utf8) == 'a'))
The former is syntactic sugar for the latter, as the former is a common use case.
As the error states: ComputeError: joins/or comparisons on categorical dtypes can only happen if they are created under the same global string cache.
Comparisons of categorical values are only allowed under a global string cache. You really want to set this in such a case as it speeds up comparisons and prevents expensive casts to strings.
Setting this on the start of your query will ensure it runs:
import polars as pl
pl.Config.set_global_string_cache()
This is a new answer based on the one from #ritchie46.
Polar 0.15.15 it now is
import polars as pl
pl.toggle_string_cache(True)
Also a StringCache() Context manager can be used, see polars documentation:
with pl.StringCache():
print(df_cat.filter(pl.col('a_cat').is_in(['a', 'c'])))
So in python Polars
I can add one or more columns to make a new column by using an expression something like
frame.with_column((pl.col('colname1') + pl.col('colname2').alias('new_colname')))
However, if I have all the column names in a list is there a way to sum all the columns in that list and create a new column based on the result ?
Thanks
sum expr supports horizontal summing. From the docs,
List[Expr] -> aggregate the sum value horizontally.
Sample code for ref,
import polars as pl
df = pl.DataFrame({"a": [1, 2, 3], "b": [1, 2, None]})
print(df)
This results in something like,
shape: (3, 2)
┌─────┬──────┐
│ a ┆ b │
│ --- ┆ --- │
│ i64 ┆ i64 │
╞═════╪══════╡
│ 1 ┆ 1 │
├╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ 2 ┆ 2 │
├╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ 3 ┆ null │
└─────┴──────┘
On this you can do something like,
cols = ["a", "b"]
df2 = df.select(pl.sum([pl.col(i) for i in cols]).alias('new_colname'))
print(df2)
Which will result in,
shape: (3, 1)
┌──────┐
│ sum │
│ --- │
│ i64 │
╞══════╡
│ 2 │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ 4 │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ null │
└──────┘
Let's say I have a csv
transaction_id,user,book
1,bob,bookA
2,bob,bookA
3,bob,bookB
4,tim,bookA
5,lucy,bookA
6,lucy,bookC
7,lucy,bookC
8,lucy,bookC
per user, i want to find the book they have shown the most preference towards. For example, the output should be;
shape: (3, 2)
┌──────┬──────────┐
│ user ┆ fav_book │
│ --- ┆ --- │
│ str ┆ str │
╞══════╪══════════╡
│ bob ┆ bookA │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ tim ┆ bookA │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ lucy ┆ bookC │
└──────┴──────────┘
now i've worked out how to do it like so
import polars as pl
df = pl.read_csv("book_aggs.csv")
print(df)
df2 = df.groupby(["user", "book"]).agg([
pl.col("book").count(),
pl.col("transaction_id") # just so we can double check where it all came from - TODO: how to output this to csv?
])
print(df2)
df3 = df2.sort(["user", "book_count"], reverse=True).groupby("user").agg([
pl.col("book").first().alias("fav_book")
])
print(df3)
but really the normal sql way of doing it is a dense_rank sorted by book count descending where rank = 1. I have tried for hours to get this to work but i can't find a relevant example in the docs.
the issue is that in the docs, none of the agg examples reference the output of another agg - in this case it needs to reference the count of each book per user, and then sort those counts descending and then rank based on that sort order.
Please provide an example that explains how to use rank to perform this task, and also how to nest aggregations efficiently.
Approach 1
We could first groupby user and 'book' to get all user -> book combinations and count the most occurring.
This would give this intermediate DataFrame:
shape: (5, 3)
┌──────┬───────┬────────────┐
│ user ┆ book ┆ book_count │
│ --- ┆ --- ┆ --- │
│ str ┆ str ┆ u32 │
╞══════╪═══════╪════════════╡
│ lucy ┆ bookC ┆ 3 │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ lucy ┆ bookA ┆ 1 │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ bob ┆ bookB ┆ 1 │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ tim ┆ bookA ┆ 1 │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ bob ┆ bookA ┆ 2 │
└──────┴───────┴────────────┘
Then we can do another groupby user where we compute the index of the maximum book_count and use that index to take the correct book.
The whole query looks like this:
df = pl.DataFrame({'book': ['bookA',
'bookA',
'bookB',
'bookA',
'bookA',
'bookC',
'bookC',
'bookC'],
'transaction_id': [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8],
'user': ['bob', 'bob', 'bob', 'tim', 'lucy', 'lucy', 'lucy', 'lucy']
})
(df.groupby(["user", "book"])
.agg([
pl.col("book").count()
])
.groupby("user")
.agg([
pl.col("book").take(pl.col("book_count").arg_max()).alias("fav_book")
])
)
And creates this output:
shape: (3, 2)
┌──────┬──────────┐
│ user ┆ fav_book │
│ --- ┆ --- │
│ str ┆ str │
╞══════╪══════════╡
│ tim ┆ bookA │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ bob ┆ bookA │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ lucy ┆ bookC │
└──────┴──────────┘
Approach 2
Another approach would be creating a book_count column with a window_expression and then use the index of the maximum to take the correct book in aggregation:
(df
.with_column(pl.count("book").over(["user", "book"]).alias("book_count"))
.groupby("user")
.agg([
pl.col("book").take(pl.col("book_count").arg_max())
])
)